Diagnostic Imaging Staff

Patients on hemodialysis had significantly higher DN and GP signal intensity increase.

Errors are often corrected before notes are signed.

Ultrasound may detect which patients are at minimal risk of sentinel lymph node metastasis.

Checklists could be used by staff to improve patient safety.

Magnetic resonance imaging, referred by general practitioners for traumatic knee injuries, adds to healthcare costs without improvement in outcomes.

A total of 35 percent of cancers diagnosed after second-opinion review were not initially detected in the original interpretation.

Amalgam fillings may pose a risk not only to patients, but to staff.

Pediatric patients were more likely to consume prescribed dose of Breeza than barium sulfate suspension.

Radiologists who plan to adopt contrast ultrasound into practice need education, support.

May contribute to knowledge gap inhibiting patients from improving their health literacy.

Further study may determine if patient awareness can mitigate the underutilization of supplemental screening breast MRI.

Using MR imaging after CT for cervical spine trauma resulted in few changes in patient management decisions.

MRE may overestimate the presence of disease when using a scoring system.

Researchers say smoking and diabetes likely have link to brain calcifications.

Magnetic resonance imaging shows changes in cerebral blood flow among children with CKD.

Follow-up procedures are ordered by clinicians largely because current tools often cannot provide diagnostic certainty in identifying cancerous breast masses.

Imaging tests overused to diagnose pure breast pain among women.

Screening mammography compliance often indicates if women will take advantage of other preventative services.

Adding double reading with arbitration to mammography screening improves cancer detection.

There is high diagnostic accuracy when grading gliomas with dynamic contrast material–enhanced (DCE) and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MR imaging.

Combined CT/MRI provides a more precise determination of LI-RADS category of hepatic observations.

Combination screening finds more cancers, but more research needed to understand impact.

A structured template for PI-RADS may increase the diagnostic performance of prostate MRI for clinically significant prostate cancer.

The drop in screening mammography after 2009 coincides with publication of the USPSTF screening guidelines.

The Bach model, PLCOM2012, LCRAT, and LCDRAT most accurately predict risk and performed best in selecting ever-smokers for screening.

Complex studies in higher acuity patients are more likely to be interpreted by radiologists than nonradiologists.

The number of female radiologists in the US varies considerably depending on geography.

Imaging appointments booked 6 months or longer ahead have highest no-show rate.

Magnetic resonance arthrography examinations are done more frequently in orthopedic hospitals.

CT colonography detects cancer among seniors with no colorectal cancer symptoms.