Radiological Reporting in Clinical Practice

✍ Scribed by Francesco Schiavon, Fabio Grigenti (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 143
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Due to the diverse diagnostic imaging techniques available (X-ray/computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine, ultrasonography), radiologic examinations are composed of an enormous amount of images, which means that the elements to be described and interpreted by the radiologist are sometimes exorbitant. Furthermore, expectations of the population and physicians requiring examinations are growing, so that besides patients, so-called clients (i.e., presumably healthy people) also flow into everyday clinical practice of a radiology department based on disease prevention/screening programs. Registration and interpretation/reporting modules of a computer-assisted radiologic reporting system were created to help the radiologist in his or her task. However, the radiologist is also expected to write a report with diversified language according to diagnostic technique(s), population type (client vs. patient, pediatric, adult, geriatric), pathology, and across all anatomical areas. In this book, the authors suggest a shared methodology to bring – as much as possible – uniformity to radiologic report writing to most effectively communicate the results of an examination. The important role played by language from a legal-forensic aspect is also considered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
From Images to the Technical and Ethical Responsibilities of Reporting....Pages 11-26
Medical-Legal Aspects....Pages 27-38
Review of the Literature on Reports....Pages 39-40
Current Health Needs....Pages 41-44
Principal Report Typologies....Pages 45-52
From the Typology of the Report to the Sensitivity of the Radiologist....Pages 53-56
The Psychology of a Good Report: Radiologist and User....Pages 57-66
Radiological Semiotics in the Report....Pages 67-73
Considerations on the Usefulness of the Clinical Description....Pages 75-78
Common Sense in Clinical and Preclinical Diagnosis....Pages 79-80
The Rationale of Reporting Methodology....Pages 81-84
Normality Reports Depending on the Subject’s Age....Pages 85-89
Errors in Reporting....Pages 91-102
The Structured Report and PACS....Pages 103-108
Radiological Reporting in the United States....Pages 109-125
Back Matter....Pages 127-137

✦ Subjects

Diagnostic Radiology; Nuclear Medicine; Ultrasound; Forensic Medicine; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention