Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Radiology
Dr. James H. Thrall, MD
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James Thrall practices Radiology. He went to University of Michigan Medical School. He received 4 awards: "Elected Member", "Top MD", "Super Doctor" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". James Thrall is a published physician. He has 99 publications published. The most current publication "Ischemic colitis: spectrum of CT findings, sites of involvement and severity."
Publications
- Ischemic colitis: spectrum of CT findings, sites of involvement and severity.
- Business intelligence, data mining, and future trends.
- Diagnostic Emergency Imaging Utilization at an Academic Trauma Center From 1996Â to 2012.
- Appropriateness and imaging utilization: "computerized provider order entry and decision support".
- Outpatient falls prevention program outcome: an increase, a plateau, and a decrease in incident reports.
- Incidence of contrast medium extravasation for CT and MRI in a large academic medical centre: AÂ report on 502,391 injections.
- Consensus-Oriented Group Peer Review: A New Process to Review Radiologist Work Output.
- What's Brewing: How Interventional Radiologists Can Learn From the Reinvention of Starbucks.
- A collaborative capital planning process for departments of radiology.
- Radiation Exposure in CT Scanning and Risk: Where Are We?
- Radiation Dose Reduction with Hybrid Iterative Reconstruction for Pediatric CT.
- Pointers for Optimizing Radiation Dose in Pediatric CT Protocols.
- Decision support for radiologist report recommendations.
- When Does a Radiologist's Recommendation for Follow-up Result in High-Cost Imaging?
- Pointers for Optimizing Radiation Dose in Abdominal CT Protocols.
- Unintended consequences of health care legislation.
- Pointers for Optimizing Radiation Dose in Chest CT Protocols.
- Automatically inserted technical details improve radiology report accuracy.
- Pointers for Optimizing Radiation Dose in Head CT Protocols.
- Automatic Exposure Control in CT: Applications and Limitations.
- CT Radiation Dose Reduction by Modifying Primary Factors.
- Managing radiation use in medical imaging: a multifaceted challenge.
- Abdominopelvic CT increases diagnostic certainty and guides management decisions: a prospective investigation of 584 patients in a large academic medical center.
- Globalization of P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preemptive, and participatory--summary of the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Internat...
- Re: "managing incidental findings on abdominal CT: White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee".
- Masters of radiology panel discussion: Models for health care performance in radiology--how do we measure our productivity and ourselves?
- What will radiology look like twenty-five years from now?
- Addressing overutilization in medical imaging.
- Increasing the appropriateness of outpatient imaging: effects of a barrier to ordering low-yield examinations.
- Quality initiatives: Key performance indicators for measuring and improving radiology department performance.
- Working together for the ACR.
- Masters of radiology panel discussion: role of communication in today's radiologic practices.
- Patients imaged early during admission demonstrate reduced length of hospital stay: a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing cross-sectional imaging.
- Health care reform in the postrecession economy.
- Health care legislation: a cautionary tale of unintended consequences.
- Masters of radiology panel discussion: responding to health care reform and other market pressures.
- MRI use in medicare.
- Cerebral aneurysms.
- US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for screening mammography: evidence-based medicine or the death of science?
- The 2009 ACR Forum: health care payment models.
- Medical value vs cost and risk: redux.
- The ACR practice leaders meeting.
- Strategies for managing imaging utilization.
- Recommendations for additional imaging in radiology reports: multifactorial analysis of 5.9 million examinations.
- One patient at a time.
- Anesthetic and steroid injections for musculoskeletal pain.
- ACR registries serve multiple purposes.
- Navigating health care reform.
- Dual-source computed tomography for the evaluation of nephrolithiasis.
- Relationships between hospitals and radiologists.
- Percutaneous image-guided ablation of renal tumors.
- Technological Innovations Impact All Aspects of AMCLC 2009.
- Drivers of health care costs: technology vs social, legal, and behavioral factors.
- Utilization of imaging: challenges and opportunities.
- Cystic pancreatic lesions: classification and management.
- Effect of computerized order entry with integrated decision support on the growth of outpatient procedure volumes: seven-year time series analysis.
- Activities of the ACR Intersociety Committee.
- Adrenal masses.
- Radiation exposure: politics and opinion vs science and pragmatism.
- Subspecialization in radiology and radiation oncology.
- Some facts on rapid imaging growth.
- Teleradiology: two-edged sword or friend of radiology practice?
- Dual-source CT for cardiac imaging.
- Health reform and imaging.
- RADPAC and the importance of government relations.
- Ultrasound and sonohysterography in the evaluation of abnormal vaginal bleeding.
- Advancing the ACR's agenda in Washington.
- ACR international outreach activities.
- Radiology practice models: the 2008 ACR Forum.
- Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients.
- The ACR education center and 21st century radiology.
- Evaluation of renal masses.
- Framing the issues.
- Aortic aneurysms.
- Globalization of health care.
- When is breast magnetic resonance imaging recommended for cancer detection?
- Changing relationships between radiologists and hospitals. Part II. Contracts and resolution of issues.
- Functional CT and MR imaging for evaluation of acute stroke.
- Changing relationships between radiologists and hospitals. Part I. Background and major issues.
- CT colonography: current and future applications.
- Commentary on "are we really practicing medicine today?".
- Evaluating adnexal lesions: which need follow-up?
- Teleradiology. Part II. Limitations, risks, and opportunities.
- Headache: when is neurologic imaging indicated?
- Blueprint for imaging in biomedical research.
- Teleradiology. Part I. History and clinical applications.
- Evaluating pulmonary nodules.
- Building research programs in diagnostic radiology. Part III. Clinical and translational research.
- FDG-PET CT for tumor imaging.
- Does radiologist recommendation for follow-up with the same imaging modality contribute substantially to high-cost imaging volume?
- Building research programs in diagnostic radiology. Part II. Basic research.
- Building research programs in diagnostic radiology. Part I. Framing the issues.
- When is imaging helpful for patients with back pain?
- Radiology order entry with decision support: initial clinical experience.
- Imaging for renal colic and hematuria.
- Education and cultural development of the health care workforce. Part II. Opportunities for nonprofessional workers.
- Coronary CT angiography.
- Education and cultural development of the health care work force. Part I. The health professions.
Schools
University of Mi Med Sch
Walter Reed Army Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Nuclear Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Elected Member
- Top MD
- Super Doctor
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Michigan Medical School
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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