Anatomy and pathophysiology of errors occurring in clinical radiology practice.

Olga R Brook; Anna Marie O'Connell; Eavan Thornton; Ronald Eisenberg; Mishal Mendiratta-Lala; Jonathan B Kruskal

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Anatomy and pathophysiology of errors occurring in clinical radiology practice.

August 4, 2010

Brook OR, O'Connell AM, Thornton E, et al. Radiographics. 2010;30(5):1401-10.

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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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