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Quality and Safety in Imaging

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Good communication is essential in medicine, and particularly in radiology. Radiology is a supporting specialty with a mainly consultative function. The service rendered by radiologists can be roughly divided into two distinct but inseparable parts: analyzing the images on the one hand, and reporting the findings on the other. The radiology report is the core of the communication by the radiologist (Flanders and Lakhani 2012), and in a way our product, the end stage of the workflow.

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Abbreviations

ACR:

American College of Radiology

ANCR:

Automated critical test result notification system

DICOM:

Digital imaging and communications in medicine

EHR:

Electronic health record

ESR:

European society of radiology

HIS:

Hospital information system

NLP:

Natural language processing

PACS:

Picture archiving and communication system

RIS:

Radiology information system

SNOMED-CT:

Systematized nomenclature of medicine—clinical terms

SR:

Structured reporting

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Vice-president of EUSOMII, Radiologist, H. Hartziekenhuis, Gasthuisstraat 1, 2400Mol, Flanders, Belgium

    Erik R. Ranschaert

  2. Staff Radiologist, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium

    Jan M. L. Bosmans

  3. Visiting Professor, Ghent University, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium

    Jan M. L. Bosmans

  4. Visiting Lecturer, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

    Jan M. L. Bosmans

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Lluís Donoso-Bach

  2. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Giles W. L. Boland

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Ranschaert, E.R., Bosmans, J.M.L. (2017). Report Communication Standards. In: Donoso-Bach, L., Boland, G. (eds) Quality and Safety in Imaging. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2017_113

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