Perceptual training to improve hip fracture identification in conventional radiographs.

Diagnosing certain fractures in conventional radiographs can be a difficult task, usually taking years to master. Typically, students are trained ad-hoc, in a primarily-rule based fashion. Our study investigated whether students can more rapidly learn to diagnose proximal neck of femur fractures via...

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Main Authors: Weijia Chen, David HolcDorf, Mark W McCusker, Frank Gaillard, Piers D L Howe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5739398?pdf=render