ArticleJournal of digital imaging2012
Prepopulated radiology report templates: a prospective analysis of error rate and turnaround time.
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- Speech recognition for clinical documentation from 1990 to 2018: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019Pooled it
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- Radiologist Productivity Analytics: Factors Impacting Abdominal Pelvic CT Exam Reporting Times.Journal of digital imaging · 2022Article
- Standardized reporting templates with mandatory reporting fields and "pick-list" options improve use of Prostate Imaging and Data Reporting System version 2 in clinical practice: A plan-do-study-act analysis.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2019Article
- Detecting insertion, substitution, and deletion errors in radiology reports using neural sequence-to-sequence models.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- The state of structured reporting: the nuance of standardized language.Pediatric radiology · 2019Review
- Structured reporting in petrous bone MRI examinations: impact on report completeness and quality.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2018Article
- Contextual Radiology Reporting: A New Approach to Neuroradiology Structured Templates.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2018Article
- Electronic Health Record Interactions through Voice: A Review.Applied clinical informatics · 2018Review
- Impact of clinical history on choice of abdominal/pelvic CT protocol in the Emergency Department.PloS one · 2018Article
- Structured reporting of MRI of the shoulder - improvement of report quality?European radiology · 2017Article
- Frequency and analysis of non-clinical errors made in radiology reports using the National Integrated Medical Imaging System voice recognition dictation software.Irish journal of medical science · 2016Article
- Structured report compliance: effect on audio dictation time, report length, and total radiologist study time.Emergency radiology · 2016Article
- A default normal chest CT structured reporting field for coronary calcifications does not cause excessive false-negative reporting.Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR · 2015Article
- Improving Radiology Report Quality by Rapidly Notifying Radiologist of Report Errors.Journal of digital imaging · 2015Article
- Creation and implementation of department-wide structured reports: an analysis of the impact on error rate in radiology reports.Journal of digital imaging · 2014Article
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Abstract
Current speech recognition software allows exam-specific standard reports to be prepopulated into the dictation field based on the radiology information system procedure code. While it is thought that prepopulating reports can decrease the time required to dictate a study and the overall number of errors in the final report, this hypothesis has not been studied in a clinical setting. A prospective study was performed. During the first week, radiologists dictated all studies using prepopulated standard reports. During the second week, all studies were dictated after prepopulated reports had been disabled. Final radiology reports were evaluated for 11 different types of errors. Each error within a report was classified individually. The median time required to dictate an exam was compared between the 2 weeks. There were 12,387 reports dictated during the study, of which, 1,173 randomly distributed reports were analyzed for errors. There was no difference in the number of errors per report between the 2 weeks; however, radiologists overwhelmingly preferred using a standard report both weeks. Grammatical errors were by far the most common error type, followed by missense errors and errors of omission. There was no significant difference in the median dictation time when comparing studies performed each week. The use of prepopulated reports does not alone affect the error rate or dictation time of radiology reports. While it is a useful feature for radiologists, it must be coupled with other strategies in order to decrease errors.
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