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Follow the links below to find information about diagnostic imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), radiography, tomography and ultrasounds.
Reviewed January 2008
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
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Links to information about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Radiography
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Links to information on various types of radiography.
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Tomography
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Links to information on tomography.
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Ultrasound
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Links to information about ultrasounds or ultrasonography, including echocardiography.
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Diagnostic Imaging Pathways
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| Publisher: |
Department of Health Western Australia
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| Description: |
Evidence based clinical decision support tool and educational resource for diagnostic imaging.
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| Date: |
Oct 2008
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| Title: |
Kidney disease - tests
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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| Description: |
Kidney diseases can be diagnosed using urine tests, blood tests, imaging studies and biopsy. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment can reduce the risk of kidney failure. Kidney diseases include kidney stones, cancer and inherited disorders such as polycystic kidney disease.
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Apr 2008
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| Title: |
Quality & Best Practice
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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| Description: |
The Department supports several projects to promote competent, ethical and safe provision of diagnostic imaging services.
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| Date: |
Apr 2008
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About Medicare and Diagnostic Imaging
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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| Description: |
Responsibility for managing Medicare-funded Diagnostic Imaging (DI) services and determining strategies for maintaining and improving the quality, accessibility and affordability of these services is undertaken cooperatively between DI representative groups and the Government as represented by the Department of Health and Ageing (the Department)).
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| Date: |
Dec 2007
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| Title: |
Committees
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| Publisher: |
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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| Description: |
Management Committees have been established for each of the Diagnostic Imaging Memoranda of Understanding.
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| Date: |
Apr 2007
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| Title: |
PillCam ESO
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| Publisher: |
Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-S)
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| Description: |
ASERNIP-S has performed a prioritising summary on the PillCam ESO.
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| Date: |
Feb 2007
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| Title: |
Imaging orders by general practitioners in Australia 1999-00
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,University of Sydney
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| Description: |
This pubication reports on the imaging ordered by general practitioners in Australia, as represented by a random sample 1,047 GPs participating in the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program over a one year period. Over 100,000 encounters were available for analysis.
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| Date: |
Oct 2001
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| Title: |
Near-Infrared spectroscopy for fetal assessment during labour
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a light-based way of measuring oxygen flows through the brain. It can be used to try and see if a fetus is at risk of brain injury from lack of oxygen during labour. NIRS involves inserting a cable through the cervix...
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| Date: |
May 2000
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