Looking for good materials and experience information on structured reporting in radiology for a presentation on this topic at our hospital. Does anybody have any links, resources or experiences you can share.
You probably saw and may want to check out . A nice paper with different views on this is by Weiss et al. Radiology. 2008; 249:739–747.
I actually think, structured reporting does not go far enough. We have to use more graphical information. Text is just limited in its ability to convey complex information. Online or standalone tools need to use modern technology to display findings in a way that referring physicians without imaging expertise (and patients!) "get it" within seconds. You may want to add this.
Good luck.
You might upload this paper. It's free from Pubmed.
Schwartz LH, Panicek DM, Berk AR, Li Y, Hricak H. Improving communication of
diagnostic radiology findings through structured reporting. Radiology. 2011
Jul;260(1):174-81. Epub 2011 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 21518775; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC3121011.
Thanks Mathhias and Joan for your input, it will be of great value for my preparations.
I have an EMR in my current practice and our procedure reporting is structured. It takes a lot of up front effort to get the structured report and options right, but if it's done well it can make reporting fairly smooth. I now report a saphenous vein laser ablation in about 90 seconds.
Dear Peter
you should contact Charles Kahn who's very active in this field as vice chairman of RSNA's Structured Reporting Subcommittee. A good article with interesting links and information has been published here:
http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=ris&pag=dis&ItemID=99359
Very valuable information can be found at www.radreport.org, including templates in many different languages
Read about this topic in http://www.rsna.org/NewsDetail.aspx?id=1737
Dear Peter,
Please check the publications of dr. Jan Bosmans (Antwerp University Hospital & University of Antwerp), who published a string of papers on this topic in top radiological journals, including Radiology.
Jan did this work in the setting of his PhD thesis at the University of Antwerp.
He is currently also a member of dr. Kahn's committee, and has been lecturing about this topic in meetings throughout Europe.
Check him out !!!
Best regards,
Paul M. Parizel
Professor and Chair
Dept of Radiology, University of Antwerp
One should have their own report format,for each reporting should have the radiologist's" signature" ,in the sense radiologists style.No two images are similar.Therefore each image has to be individualised and reported.Structured reporting is simply copying others ideas.
Check this RSNA site it has most of it.
https://rsna.org/Reporting_Initiative.aspx
