Cover -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contributors -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: Health care reform: The scope of the problem -- The waste and the cost -- The causes: Expanded list -- CHAPTER 2: Only studies which are necessary -- Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Practical solution -- Follow-up folly -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3: Radiation dose reduction -- Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 4: Alternate imaging studies to CT -- Scope of the issue -- Discussion of specific US indications -- Drawbacks of US -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- CHAPTER 5: Patient information -- Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- CHAPTER 6: Are we doing the right study? -- Introduction -- Medical imaging's image: More and more is less and less -- CT: Increasing radiation exposure versus public health and safety -- Protecting our children -- Historical efforts to solve the problem of medical imaging overutilization: Limitations of radiology benefits management programs -- The meaningful use of health information technology: Computerized decision support systems -- Progress in reducing the overuse and misuse in imaging -- Impediments -- Conclusions and recommendations -- CHAPTER 7: Radiology medical education -- Scope of the issue -- Future directions -- Radiology education beyond Radiology residency-medical students and residents from other areas -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 8: Quality metrics for radiology practice -- Overview -- Quality -- Diagnostic accuracy of reports -- Safety -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 9: Medicolegal reform -- Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- CHAPTER 10: Pressures on reduced compensation for clinical service -- Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 11: National health care systems.

Scope of the issue -- Ideal solution -- Workable solution -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 12: Research in radiology -- Scope of the issue -- Research: basic, clinical, and translational -- Evidence-based research -- Grant foundations -- Postmodern medical imaging for end-of-life care: A case for research -- DNA double-strand breaks as biological markers for radiation-induced DNA damages in radiology -- Conclusions -- Subject index.