To cite: Sahni VA, Khorasani R. BMJ Qual Saf 2016;25:569–571. Diagnostic errors in radiology reports can result in patient harm, lead to unnecessary additional testing or interventions, or otherwise diminish the quality of care delivery. 2 In this issue, Lauritzen et al retrospectively evaluated the impact of a quality assurance process using double reads on changes made to abdominal CT reports...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate what referring clinicians suggest when asked how the quality of radiology reports can be improved. METHODS: At the end of the questionnaire of the COVER survey, a bi-national quantitative survey on the radiology report among referring physicians, clinical specialists and general practitioners were able to freely enter suggestions with regard to improving the quality o...

OBJECTIVE Many radiology information systems (RISs) installed during the 1980s have a user interface that is crude by today's standards. We explored improving this user interface by using the local processing power of the personal computer. In this article we describe a computer program that significantly enhances the ease of report retrieval by automating much of the interaction with our RIS, ...

UNLABELLED The number of computed tomography examinations has continuously increased over the last decades and accounts for a major part of the collective radiation dose from medical investigations. For purposes of quality assurance in modern radiology a systematic monitoring and analysis of dose related data from radiological examinations is mandatory. Various ways of collecting dose data are ...