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Anatomy and pathophysiology of errors occurring in clinical radiology practice.
Brook OR, O'Connell AM, Thornton E, Eisenberg RL, Mendiratta-Lala M, Kruskal JB. Radiographics. 2010;30:1401-1410.

This commentary discusses factors that contribute to diagnostic errors in radiology and describes a classification scheme to identify and prevent potential failures.
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