X-rays Often Repeated For Patients In Developing Countries
Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
Patients in developing countries often need to have X-ray examinations repeated so that doctors have the image quality they need for useful medical diagnosis, the IAEA is learning. The findings come from a survey involving thousands of patients in 45 hospitals and 12 countries of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
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