Filev, Peter D Little, Brent P Duong, Phuong-Anh T
Published in
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
The purpose of this study was to determine how often a second-opinion interpretation of interstitial lung disease (ILD) by an academic cardiothoracic radiologist is discordant with the initial interpretation by a nonacademic radiologists and how often the clinical diagnosis determined by multidisciplinary consensus agrees with the initial and secon...
Maruyama, Yuki Sadahira, Takuya Araki, Motoo Mitsui, Yosuke Wada, Koichiro Rodrigo, Acosta Gonzalez Herik Munetomo, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Masami Yanai, Hiroyuki
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Molecular and Clinical Oncology
The present study investigated the concordance between Gleason scores assigned to prostate biopsy specimens by outside pathologists and a urological pathology expert, and determined the risk of upgrading between opinion-matched Gleason grade group (GGG) 1 biopsy specimens and radical prostatectomy specimens. Between January 2012 and May 2018, 733 p...
Khoshpouri, Parisa Khoshpouri, Pegah Yousem, Kelly P Yousem, David M
Published in
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
OBJECTIVE. Policies regarding how to handle the review of imaging studies performed at another institution (second opinion consultations) have not been uniform in academic radiology. Departments must decide whether to simply store outside studies in the PACS, report the studies officially, bill third-party payers, repeat such studies, or take a com...
Al-Badri, Mohamed Khamis Al-Husaini, Doaa Sulaiman Al-Mandhari, Dr. Amal Rashid
Published in
Qatar Medical Journal
Background: One of the reasons to leave against medical advice (LAMA) from a hospital is to seek treatment in another hospital 1 . Those patients are at high risk of readmission and mortality compared to patients with planned discharge 2 . The aim of this study was to identify the factors for patients' presentations to an academic tertiary hospital...
Halaska, Ciarra Sachs, Peter Sanfilippo, Kate Lin, Chen-Tan
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Journal of medical Internet research
Although patient data is available through electronic portals, little information exists about the benefits and/or challenges of providing patients with online access to their radiology images. The aims of this quality improvement project were to understand patient attitudes toward being able to view their radiology images online and determine how ...
Weinfurtner, R Jared Mooney, Blaise Forbus, Jessica
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Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
The aim of our study is to determine MRI review discrepancy frequency and the subsequent impact on patient management for patients pursuing breast imaging second opinions. A retrospective chart review was conducted on 1,000 consecutive patients with second opinion radiology interpretations performed by subspecialty-trained breast radiologists at a ...
Whorms, Debra S Giess, Catherine S Golshan, Mehra Freedman, Rachel A Bunnell, Craig A Alper, Emily C Losk, Katya Khorasani, Ramin
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Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
To assess the incidence and clinical significance of discrepancy in subspecialty interpretation of outside breast imaging examinations for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients presenting to a tertiary cancer center. This Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective study included patients presenting from July 2016 to March 2017 to a National...
Minig, Lucas Bosch, José Manuel Illueca, Carmen Zorrero, Cristina Cárdenas-Rebollo, José Miguel Cruz, Julia Romero, Ignacio
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ecancermedicalscience
Aim To determine the incidence of discrepancy rate between the initial pathology diagnosis and referral diagnosis in women with gynaecological cancer. Methods A retrospective observational study was performed including all consecutive patients with gynaecological cancer referred and who underwent pathologic review between January 2013 and May 2017....
Shetty, Anup S Mittal, Ashmit Salter, Amber Narra, Vamsi R Fowler, Kathryn J
Published in
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
Tertiary care practices increasingly provide second-opinion consultations on reports from outside practices or institutions. This practice of providing a second opinion has been studied in a variety of subspecialties; however, its potential effect on the management of hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) disease is not known. The purpose of this study wa...
Peck, Martyn Moffat, David Latham, Bruce Badrick, Tony
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Journal of clinical pathology
Diagnostic/interpretative accuracy can be challenging in anatomical pathology due to the subjective element of the diagnostic process. This can lead to false-negative or false-positive diagnoses of malignancy, variations in grading and diagnostic misclassification of a condition.It is imperative that an accurate diagnosis is achieved so that an app...
