Sentence examples for discrepant reports from inspiring English sources
Twenty-eight discrepant reports were identified (representing 0.1% of 18,185 images interpreted).
ED staff logged 28 discrepant reports over the 6-month period (15 April–15 October 2011).
Patient race was the only factor associated with lack of agreement; African-American patients were more likely than white patients to provide discrepant reports.
The importance of expedient communication of discrepant reports by staff radiologists is stressed, as is EP verification of patient contact information prior to discharge.
The purpose of this study was not to capture all discrepant reports, but to capture the most important misreads from the EP's perspective using a new approach.
The relatively low rates of reported clinically significant discrepant reports in our study may be related in part to the impact of this QI project.
Although variance in discrepant reporting can be partially attributed to random error (De Los Reyes 2011) and the reporter's environment (Achenbach et al. 1987), a substantial portion of the variance may be accounted for by reporter characteristics (Briggs-Gowan et al. 1996).
The current literature on discrepant reporting seeks mostly to quantify the percentage of misreads that occurs between radiology residents and staff radiologists as well as to characterize the types of scans that are most often misinterpreted.
Cooper et al. found that the rate of discrepant reporting between radiology residents and staff was low, reporting 3.3% for minor discrepancies and 1% for major discrepancies, with this rate decreasing slightly with each additional year of residency training and more common for body CT than other imaging modalities.
After providing informed consent, the EP who logged the case for the study (and who also initiated patient contact and potentially altered management following the revised DI diagnosis) underwent a scripted telephone interview with one of the researchers (E.M). to capture clinical and operational correlates of the discrepant report.
No additional categories to explain discrepant reporting emerged from the analysis.
