Teleradiology services firm Virtual Radiologic (vRad) has upgraded its Radiology Patient Care (RPC) indices, which provide findings-based national radiology benchmarking metrics.
The RPC indices are derived from vRad's clinical database of imaging studies from more than 2,100 facilities in all 50 states and feature a national projection of the U.S. market taken from radiology studies.
The information is normalized over a range of variables that include patient age, gender, body region, geography, hospital and integrated delivery network (IDN) type, bed size, modality, reasons for study order, and findings status.
The RPC indices are available for free and unrestricted use and are designed to provide hospitals, radiology groups, and health systems with statistically significant metrics for objective comparisons of their use of imaging with national averages and relevant peer groups.
