Missed lesions at abdominal oncologic CT: lessons learned from quality assurance.

Bettina Siewert; Jacob Sosna; Ann McNamara; Vassilios Raptopoulos; Jonathan B. Kruskal

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Missed lesions at abdominal oncologic CT: lessons learned from quality assurance.

June 14, 2011

Siewert B, Sosna J, McNamara A, et al. Radiographics. 2008;28(3):623-38.

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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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