The joint commission practice performance evaluation: a primer for radiologists.

As health care quality continues to move into the limelight, so do physicians. The new Joint Commission requirements (Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation) mandate continuous data-based evaluation and monitoring of physician practice performance. This task could be seen as cumbersome, but it may provide opportunities to develop quality improvement programs that demonstrate the value provided by hospital-based radiologists.

Continuous quality improvement programs provide new opportunities to drive value innovation initiatives in hospital-based radiology practices.

Imaging services constitute a huge portion of the of the total dollar investment within the health care enterprise. Accordingly, this generates competition among medical specialties organized along service lines for their pieces of the pie and increased scrutiny from third-party payers and government regulators. These market and political forces create challenge and opportunity for a hospital-based radiology practice.

The field defects of anterior temporal lobectomy: a quantitative reassessment of Meyer's loop.

Temporal lobectomy is often complicated by superior quadrantanopia. The relation of field loss to sagittal resection length can inform us about the functional anatomy of Meyer's loop, with ramifications for surgical planning. However, the literature has produced highly variable results.