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Patient - and Family-Centered Care

Provide high-quality, radiologic care that incorporates the needs, wants and values of your patients and communities.

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Prioritize the health and well-being of your patients by establishing patient – and family-centered care in your practice. When patients and families determine how they participate in care and decision-making, it leads to better health outcomes, improved patient and family experience of care, better clinician and staff satisfaction and wiser allocation of resources.

Explain Clinical Choices With Patient Resources

Help patients and families understand the why, when and how behind the scans you recommend.

  • Patient-Friendly Animations

    Share animated shorts with patients to help them understand specific procedures.

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  • Summaries for Patients

    Give patients the basics with these written explainers to help answer questions about more than 160 conditions.

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  • Breast Imaging Resources

    Resources to provide effective, safe, quality breast imaging care to patients.

    Access your tools
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  • Colon Cancer Screening Resources

    Help your patients learn about CT colonography (CTC) and find a screening location.

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  • Lung Cancer Screening Resources

    Get the latest resources, toolkits and key patient information to provide safe, effective lung cancer screenings.

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  • Reducing Patient Scanxiety

    Explore resources that allow you to understand the patient experience and reduce patient anxiety around imaging.

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Get the Support You Need

Add to your knowledge base to help patients in your practice.

  • Practice Toolkit

    Get patients the answers they need — with educational, informational and safety materials for your practice.

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  • The ACR Appropriateness Criteria®

    Use these evidence-based guidelines to help make imaging and treatment decisions.

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  • Population Health Management

    You want to keep your patient populations as healthy as possible.

    These resources can help

  • JACR

    Through high-quality articles, the Journal aims to engage readers in a dialogue that ultimately benefits patient care.

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  • ACR Bulletin

    Stay on top of what’s happening now and what’s coming next in the world of patient-and family-centered care.

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Radiant Art

Connect with peers and ask new questions by exploring art by — and for — radiologists.