Transitioning to a clinical practice model in your local environment.

Once the clinical practice model is established, transitioning is fairly easy. Office staff such as schedulers and nurse practitioners should understand that all elective therapeutic interventions are to be booked only by interventional radiologists once the interventionalist has done a thorough diagnostic evaluation, including a history and physical in an office environment. To optimize the interventionalist's workload and efficiency, some triaging of patients in the clinical office is necessary. Also, noninvasive testing will need to be made available in the clinical office.