Diagnostic imaging is an essential and indispensable part of medical diagnosis and
treatment, and diagnostic errors or biases are also common in the department of radiology …

Imaging plays a pivotal role in the diagnostic process for many patients. With estimates of
average diagnostic error rates ranging from 3% to 5%, there are approximately 40 million …

Arriving at a medical diagnosis is a highly complex process that is extremely error prone.
Missed or delayed diagnoses often lead to patient harm and missed opportunities for …

Abstract Interpretation differences between radiologists and diagnostic errors are significant
issues in daily radiology practice. An awareness of errors and their underlying causes can …

Diagnostic errors are important in all branches of medicine because they are an indication of
poor patient care. Since the early 1970s, physicians have been subjected to an increasing …

OBJECTIVE. Interpretive errors in diagnostic imaging result in significant patient morbidity
and mortality, but the importance of errors and process failures in the imaging cycle other …

In a previous Editorial for this journal, we proposed an epistemological analysis of imaging
[1]. Epistemology asks the question: in this area, at what conditions can we claim that we …

Health System [1], the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is in the process of developing
recommendations to reduce diagnostic error in health care [2]. Sponsors of the program …

Peer review for radiologists plays an important role in identifying contributing factors that can
lead to diagnostic errors and patient harm. It is essential that all radiologists be aware of the …

Medical errors are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the medical field and are
substantial contributors to medical costs. Radiologists play an integral role in the diagnosis …