OBJECTIVES: A review of radiology discrepancies of emergency department (ED)
radiograph interpretations was undertaken to examine the types of error made by …

Background: The study objective was to compare the accuracy of radiograph interpretation
by emergency and family physicians with radiologists' overreadings. Methods: We undertook …

Methods Two hundred thirty-seven consecutive emer gency room visits, generating 294
radiographic ex aminations, were reviewed by the senior author to determine the level of …

Objective: To estimate the rate of clinically significant discrepancies between radiograph
interpretations by attending radiologists and emergency medicine (EM) faculty in 2 …

Radiographic misinterpretation rates have been suggested as a quality assurance tool for
assessing emergency departments and individual physicians, but have not been defined for …

This study examined the concordance of radiographic readings between emergency
department (ED) attending physicians and radiologists in a community teaching hospital. In …

Emergency and radiology department directors at 517 acute-care US teaching hospitals
were sent identical questionnaires surveying practice patterns of ED plain film radiograph …

We conducted a prospective study to assess the relationship between the interpretive
agreement rate for emergency department radiographs and the degree of interpretive …

ObjectivesEmergency physicians (EPs) interpret plain radiographs for management and
disposition of patients. Radiologists subsequently conduct their own interpretations, which …

Radiograph interpretation in the pediatric emergency department (ED) is commonly
performed by pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) attendings or physicians-in-training. This …