Improving radiology report quality by rapidly notifying radiologist of report errors.

Matthew J Minn; Arash R Zandieh; Ross W Filice

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Improving radiology report quality by rapidly notifying radiologist of report errors.

October 14, 2015

Minn MJ, Zandieh AR, Filice RW. J Digit Imaging. 2015;28(4):492-8.

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In this study, researchers designed an algorithm for flagging radiology reports that may contain gender or laterality errors. Implementation of this program led to rapid report correction, and the error rate by radiologists receiving this feedback decreased over time.

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