Radiologist age and diagnostic errors.

Christine Lamoureux; Tarek N Hanna; Edward Callaway; Michael A Bruno; Scott Weber; Devin Sprecher; Timothy D Johnson

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Radiologist age and diagnostic errors.

October 18, 2023

Lamoureux C, Hanna TN, Callaway E, et al. Emerg Radiol. 2023;30(5):577-587.

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Clinician skills can decrease with age. This retrospective analysis of 1.9 million preliminary interpretations of radiology imaging findings examined the relationship between radiologist age and diagnostic errors. While the overall mean error rate for all radiologists was low (0.5%), increasing age was associated with increased relative risk of diagnostic errors.

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