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Richard Duszak
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 391
Citations - 5265
Richard Duszak is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 356 publications receiving 4173 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Duszak include Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania & Carolinas Medical Center.
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Disparities over Time in Volume, Day of the Week, and Patient Complexity between Paracentesis and Thoracentesis Procedures Performed by Radiologists versus Those Performed by Nonradiologists.
Ravi V. Gottumukkala,Anand M. Prabhakar,Jennifer Hemingway,Danny R. Hughes,Danny R. Hughes,Richard Duszak +5 more
TL;DR: The proportion of paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures performed in Medicare beneficiaries by radiologists continues to increase, with radiologists increasingly performing most of both services on weekends, but radiologists perform disproportionately more on weekdays than on weekends.
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Comparison of Radiologists and Other Specialists in the Performance of Lumbar Puncture Procedures Over Time
Derek R. Johnson,M.D. Waid,Elizabeth Y. Rula,Danny R. Hughes,Andrew B. Rosenkrantz,Richard Duszak +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the percentage of lumbar puncture procedures performed by radiologists versus non-radiologist providers was evaluated, including changes with time and discrepancies between specialties.
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Malpractice Issues in Radiology: Medicare Compliance Versus Standard of Care Conformance—Real or Imaginary Conflict?
Richard Duszak,Leonard Berlin +1 more
TL;DR: A tech called the gynecologist and asked him whether he wanted to order a diagnostic study, and he said no, he didn't feel the lump, and that the authors should only do a plain screening mammogram.
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Increasing and disparate use of neuroimaging for adults and children with non-traumatic headaches in the US emergency departments: Opportunities for improvement.
TL;DR: Optimization of neuroimaging practices for headache is considered a national priority; however, nationwide patterns and predictors of Neuroimaging use for headache in the US emergency departments (EDs) are unknown.
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Management of Splenic Trauma in Contemporary Clinical Practice: A National Trauma Data Bank Study.
Amanda Chahine,Shenise Gilyard,Tarek N. Hanna,S. Fan,Benjamin B. Risk,Jamlik-Omari Johnson,Richard Duszak,Janice Newsome,Minzhi Xing,Nima Kokabi +9 more
TL;DR: Most patients with splenic-dominant blunt trauma are managed with NOM, and over time, the use of embolization has increased while open surgery has declined, and mortality has improved for all treatment methods.