Practice Issues


Jonathan H. Sunshine, Leonard Merewitz, Rebecca S. Lewis.  Radiologists' Clinical Practice of Neuroimaging.   J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Aug;5(8):907-918.e8.

Scott Kennedy, Howard P. Forman, Adam H. Kaye, Mythreyi Bhargavan, Jonathan H. Sunshine.  The Reasons That Many Radiology Practices Don't Use Off-Hours Services.  J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Aug;5(8):887-92.

Bhargavan, M. and J. H. Sunshine. "The growing size of radiology practices." J.Am.Coll.Radiol. 5.7 (2008): 801-05.

Burger IM, Kass NE, Sunshine JH, Siegelman SS.  The Use of CT for Screening: A National Survey of Radiologists' Activities and Attitudes. Radiology 2008.

Nayak NR, Meghea C, Bhargavan M, Forman HP, Sunshine JH. Prevalence of productivity-enhancing technologies in radiology. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008; 190(6):1445-1452.

Kaye AH, Forman HP, Kapoor R, Sunshine JH. A survey of radiology practices' use of after-hours radiology services. J Am Coll Radiol 2008; 5(6):748-758.

Levin DC, Rao VM, Parker L, Frango AJ, Sunshine JH.  Ownership or Leasing of MRI Facilities by Nonradiologist Physicians Is a Rapidly Growing Trend.  JACR.  Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 105-109 (February 2008).
 

Ebbert,T.L.; Meghea,C.; Iturbe,S.; Forman,H.P.; Bhargavan,M.; Sunshine,J.H. The state of teleradiology in 2003 and changes since 1999. Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Feb;188(2):W103-12.

Fleishon HB, Bhargavan M, Meghea C. Radiologists' reading times using PACS and using films: one practice's experience. Acad Radiol. 2006;13(4):453-460.

Larson DB, Cypel YS, Forman HP, Sunshine JH. A comprehensive overview of teleradiology in radiology practices: results from the American College of Radiology’s 1999 survey. AJR Am J Roentgenol. July 2005;185:24-35.

Kalish GM, Bhargavan M, Sunshine JH, Forman HP. Self-referred whole-body imaging: where are we now? Radiology. November 2004;233(2):353-8.

Saketkhoo DD, Bhargavan M, Sunshine JH, Forman HP. Emergency department image interpretation services at private community hospitals. Radiology. April 2004;231(1):190-7.

Borgstede JP, Lewis RS, Bhargavan M, Sunshine JH. Radpeer™ quality assurance program: a multi-facility study of interpretive disagreement rates. J Am Coll Radiol. January 2004;1(1):159-165.

Soffa DJ, Lewis RS, Sunshine JH, Bhargavan M. Disagreement in interpretation: a method for development of benchmarks for quality assurance in imaging. J Am Coll Radiol. March 2004;1(3):212-217.

Mitchell DG, Parker L, Sunshine JH, Levin DC. Body MR imaging and CT volume: variations and trends based on an analysis of medicare and fee-for-service health insurance databases. AJR Am J Roentgenol July 2002;179:27-31.

Cypel Y, Sunshine JH, Schepps B. Radiation oncologists in 2000: demographic, professional, and practice characteristics. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. June 2002;53(3):720-728.

Levin DC, Parker L, Sunshine J, Pentecost M. Cardiovascular imaging: Who does it and how important is it to the practice of radiology? AJR Am J Roentgenol. February 2002;178:303-306.

Sunshine J, Cypel Y, Schepps B. Diagnostic radiologists in 2000: Basic characteristics, practices, and issues related to the radiologist shortage. AJR Am J Roentgenol. February 2002;178:291-301.

Levin DC, Parker L, Intenzo C, Sunshine JH. Rapid increase in utilization rates of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging and related procedures between 1996 and 1998: Practice patterns among radiologists, cardiologists and other physicians. Radiology. January 2002;222:144-148.

Wheeler JRC, Reiter KL, Mead S, Burkhardt JH, Busheé GR, Sunshine JH. The use of volume standards in health services. Qual Manage Health Care. Summer 2001;9(4):47-62.

Levin D, Parker L, Sunshine J, Busheé G, Merritt C. Role of emergency medicine physicians in US performed in patients in the emergency department: How substantial is their participation? Radiology. July 2000;216:265-268.

Moskowitz H, Sunshine J, Grossman D, Adams L, Gelinas L. The effect of imaging guidelines on the number and quality of outpatient radiographic examinations. AJR Am J Roentgenol. July 2000;175:9-15.

Margulis A, Sunshine J. Radiology at the turn of the millennium. Radiology. January 2000;214:15-23.

Levin D Parker L Eschelman D, Sunshine J. Do interventional radiologists pose a significant threat to the practice of vascular surgery? J Vasc Interv Radiol. September 1999;10:1007-1011.

Spettell C, Levin D, Rao V, Sunshine J, Bansal S. Practice patterns of radiologists and nonradiologists: Nationwide medicare data on the performance of chest and skeletal radiography and abdominal and pelvic sonography. AJR Am J Roentgenol. July 1998;171:3-5.

Rao V, Levin D, Spettel C, Sunshine J, Bansal S. Who performs neuroimaging? Results from the 1993 national medicare database. Radiology. August 1997;204:443-445.

Deitch C, Chan W, Sunshine J, Zinninger M, Cascade P, Cochran S. Quality assessment and improvement: What radiologists do and think. AJR Am J Roentgenol. November 1994;163:1245-1254.

Sunshine J, Evens R. The challenge of managed care and managed competition. AJR Am J Roentgenol. April 1994;162:767-771.

Sunshine J. Letter to the editor: Self-referral by physicians. N Engl J Med. 1993 Apr 29;328(17):1274..

Sunshine J, Bansal S, Evens R. Radiology performed by nonradiologists in the United States: Who does what? AJR Am J Roentgenol. August 1993;161:419-429.

Mitchell J, Sunshine J. Consequences of physicians' ownership of health care facilities: Joint ventures in radiation therapy. N Engl J Med. November 1992;327:1497-1501.

Lopiano M, Stolz J, Sunshine J, Fisk T, Leepson E. Physician referrals to radiologists. AJR Am J Roentgenol. December 1990;155:1327-1330.