Radiology department management system: technologists' costs.

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Abstract
A series of management reports were developed to compare actual costs against expected costs for radiology departments on a more detailed level than previously available. Labor standards were first developed for the most commonly employed diagnostic examinations and showed that increased patient complexity (resulting from, for example, immobility, precautins status, etc.) also increased the examination times up to 2.6-fold compared with the time required for average patients. Using labor standards and budgeted and actual volumes of average and complex patients, 4 types of variances, volume variance, examination mix variance, patient complexity variance and technologist efficiency variance, were calculated. Monitoring the technologist efficiency variance over time could be 1 key piece of information for improving departmental productivity.

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