Is a picture worth a thousand words? The effect of viewing patient photographs on radiologist interpretation of CT studies
| Autor: | John Ryan, Matthew D. F. McInnes, Nick Kolenko, Gul-e Khanda, Shawna Duigenan, Nitin Kumar Ramamurthy, Ania Z. Kielar, Adnan Sheikh, Blair Macdonald, Vivek Virmani, Rebecca M. Hibbert, Mohammed El-Khoudary, Adam S. Tunis, Najla Fasih |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Patient Identification Systems media_common.quotation_subject Teleradiology Sensitivity and Specificity Patient care Patient-Centered Care Photography Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics In patient media_common Cognitive science Ontario business.industry Interpretation (philosophy) Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Image Enhancement Radiology Information Systems Feeling Ct technique Female Clinical Competence business Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR. 12(1) |
| ISSN: | 1558-349X |
| Popis: | DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM The past decade has seen sweeping changes to radiologic practice. Year-onyear increases in CT utilization [1,2] and the introduction of teleradiology [3] have inexorably shifted practice toward rapid reporting of cross-sectional imaging. An unintended effect of these changes has been a perceptible reduction in patient contact, with radiologists becoming increasingly remote from patient care [4,5] and feeling personally detached from patients [6]. To “personalize” the reporting process, the idea of presenting patient photographs to reporting radiologists was investigated in an unpublished study [7]. The authors suggested that radiologists produced longer reports containing more incidental findings, and subjectively reported more meticulously and empathetically, when presented with patients’ photographs. The study attracted considerable media attention and was even included in a published nonfiction book [8]. However, its significance remains unclear, because the incidental abnormalities were not classified in terms of clinical importance, and the findings have not been reproduced elsewhere. The purpose of this study was to assess whether presenting patients’ |
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