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Assessment of discordance between radiologists and emergency physicians of RADIOgraphs among discharged patients in an emergency department: the RADIO-ED study

verfasst von: Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois, Céline Lambert, Frédéric Dutheil, Julien Raconnat, Mouna Benamor, Batiste Dalle, Maxime Laurent, Oluwaseun J. Adeyemi, Agnès Lhoste-Trouilloud, Jeannot Schmidt

Erschienen in: Emergency Radiology | Ausgabe 2/2024

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Abstract

Background

The possibility to perform standard X-rays is mandatory for all French Emergency Department (ED). Initial interpretation is under the prescriber emergency physician—who continually works under extreme conditions, but a radiologist needs to describe a report as soon as possible. We decided to assess the rate of discordance between emergency physicians and radiologists among discharged patients.

Methods

We performed a monocentric study on an adult ED among discharged patients who had at least one X-ray during their consult. We used an automatic electronic system that classified interpretation as concordant or discordant. We review all discordant interpretation, which were classified as false negative, false positive, or more exam needed.

Results

For 1 year, 8988 patients had 12,666 X-rays. We found a total of 742 (5.9%) discordant X-rays, but only 277 (2.2%) discordance had a consequence (new consult or exam not initially scheduled). We found some factors associated with discordance such as male sex, or ankle, foot, knee, finger, wrist, ribs, and elbow locations.

Conclusions

On discharged patients, using a systematic second interpretation of X-ray by a radiologist, we found a total of 2.2% discordance that had an impact on the initial care.

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Titel: Assessment of discordance between radiologists and emergency physicians of RADIOgraphs among discharged patients in an emergency department: the RADIO-ED study
verfasst von: Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois
Céline Lambert
Frédéric Dutheil
Julien Raconnat
Mouna Benamor
Batiste Dalle
Maxime Laurent
Oluwaseun J. Adeyemi
Agnès Lhoste-Trouilloud
Jeannot Schmidt
Publikationsdatum: 22.01.2024
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Emergency Radiology / Ausgabe 2/2024
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Elektronische ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-024-02206-4

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