Radiology Reports: What YOU Think You ’re Saying and What THEY Think You’re Saying

Image interpretation and translation into written language is an imperfect process. Yet, the radiology report represents the link between radiologist's opinion and patient's images. Increased access to images through remote viewing stations has made direct communication between radiologists and clinicians less commonplace. We are interested in how accurately the descriptive contents within radiology reports convey the feelings of the radiologist to the referring clinician. We hypothesize that certain words and phrases hold different connotations for radiologists and clinicians.

Source: Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology - January 6, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Bonmyong Lee, Matthew T. Whitehead Source Type: research