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Missed lesions at abdominal oncologic CT: lessons learned from quality assurance.
Siewert B, Sosna J, McNamara A, Raptopoulos V, Kruskal JB. Radiographics. 2008;28:623-638.

Root cause analysis of errors in interpreting radiographic studies in oncology patients revealed several areas for improvement, ranging from technical factors to active errors and human factors.
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