Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27572812›Full record

ArticleEuropean radiology2017

Usage of structured reporting in radiological practice: results from an Italian online survey.

Lorenzo Faggioni, Francesca Coppola, Riccardo Ferrari, Emanuele Neri, Daniele Regge

Registry-linked trialAbstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in European radiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06877182 (Novel Neuroradiological Workflow for the Assisted DIAgnosis and Management of DEMentia with Artificial Intelligence), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06877182 active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Novel Neuroradiological Workflow for the Assisted DIAgnosis and Management of DEMentia with Artificial Intelligence

TypeobservationalSponsorIRCCS SYNLAB SDNRan2024 to 2027Enrolled80,000ConditionsAlzheimer Disease, DementiaArmsMagnetic Resonance Imaging with Contrast
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Multidisciplinary attitudes towards LLM-structured oncologic CT reports: a prospective fixed-sequence questionnaire study.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Structured reporting in knee MRI.Skeletal radiology · 2026
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Use and Perceptions of Oncology CT Structured Reports in Australia and New Zealand.Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology · 2025
    Article
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Pre-TAVI imaging: an Italian survey by the CT PRotocol optimization (CT-PRO) group.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2024
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Exploring Radiologists' Burnout in the COVID-19 Era: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
    Review
  19. Article
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lorenzo FaggioniUO Radiodiagnostica 1, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa, 2, 56100, Pisa, Italy. lfaggioni@sirm.org.
Francesca CoppolaMalpighi Radiology Unit, Department of Diagnostic and Preventive Medicine, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Via Albertoni, 15, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Riccardo FerrariUOC Diagnostica per Immagini 1, Urgenza Emergenza, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Camillo-Forlanini. C.ne Gianicolense, 87, 00152, Rome, Italy.
Emanuele NeriSezione Dipartimentale Radiodiagnostica 3, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale, Università di Pisa, Ospedale S. Chiara - Edificio 18, Via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
Daniele ReggeCandiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, I-10060, Candiolo (To), Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo assess the opinion on structured reporting (SR) and its usage by radiologist members of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology (SIRM) via an online survey.

methodsAll members received an email invitation to join the survey as an initiative by the SIRM Imaging Informatics Chapter. The survey included 10 questions about demographic information, definition of radiological SR, its usage in everyday practice, perceived advantages and disadvantages over conventional reporting and overall opinion about SR.

results1159 SIRM members participated in the survey. 40.3 % of respondents gave a correct definition of radiological SR, but as many as 56 % of them never used it at work. Compared with conventional reporting, the most appreciated advantages of SR were higher reproducibility (70.5 %), better interaction with referring clinicians (58.3 %) and the option to link metadata (36.7 %). Risk of excessive simplification (59.8 %), template rigidity (56.1 %) and poor user compliance (42.1 %) were the most significant disadvantages. Overall, most respondents (87.0 %) were in favour of the adoption of radiological SR.

conclusionsMost radiologists were interested in radiological SR and in favour of its adoption. However, concerns about semantic, technical and professional issues limited its diffusion in real working life, encouraging efforts towards improved SR standardisation and engineering. KEY POINTS: • Despite radiologists' awareness, radiological SR is little used in working practice. • Perceived SR advantages are reproducibility, better clinico-radiological interaction and link to metadata. • Perceived SR disadvantages are excessive simplification, template rigidity and poor user compliance. • Improved standardisation and engineering may be helpful to boost SR diffusion.

Indexed as

Attitude of Health PersonnelPractice Patterns, Physicians'AdultAgedHumansInternetItalyMedical InformaticsMiddle AgedRadiographyRadiologistsRadiologyRadiology Information SystemsReproducibility of ResultsSemanticsSocieties, MedicalConventional reportingDICOMRIS/PACSStructured reportingTemplate

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.