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Environmental impact reduction as a new dimension for quality measurement of healthcare services

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2018

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Amin Esmaeili, Charles McGuire, Michael Overcash, Kamran Ali, Seyed Soltani, Janet Twomey

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Abstract

No other research has been published on the life cycle assessment of MRI. The share of outside hospital indirect environmental impact of MRI services is a previously undocumented impact of the physician's order for an internal image.

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