Error and Uncertainty in Diagnostic Radiology

Over the past decade, radiological imaging tests - including CT scanning, MRI, PET, X-rays, ultrasound, fluoroscopy and other modalities - have become essential to the routine diagnostic process.

While these modern advanced medical images and their striking anatomic detail have discovered underlying issues, they have also contributed to a false impression of infallibility. Unlike other straightforward diagnostic tests, such as the EKG or blood chemistry panel, radiological imaging tests are highly variable and complex, often yielding uncertain results, as well as frequent false-negatives and false-positives. The experts who interpret the images (the diagnostic radiologists) sometimes make mistakes: the practice of diagnostic radiology is a fallible, human endeavour, one involving complex perceptual, neuro-physiological and cognitive processes employed under a wide range of circumstances, and with a great deal of variability.

Error and Uncertainty in Diagnostic Radiology opens the 'black box, ' of medical imaging, exposing the remarkable inner workings of the process of diagnostic radiology-including how and why it can sometimes go tragically wrong. The occurrence of r

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Michael A. Bruno

ISBN:

978-0-19-066539-5

Specialty:

• Medical Education
• Imaging Technology
• Radiology
• Health Policy
• Emergency Medicine & Trauma
• Residents

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

280

Publication Year:

2019

Doody Core Title Score:

• 2.5 (Diagnostic Radiology)