QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR RADIOLOGY REPORTING

该项目的目标是增强质量保证工具 可在放射科购买。重点将放在质量上 放射科医生出具的报告。基本的理论是 医疗信息系统采集的临床数据可用于 为了批评放射科医生对许多 X光检查是在医院进行的。 衡量报告信息质量的两种方法将 被利用。第一种方法使用了来自 病理部门和其他计算机化的来源来证实 放射科医生记录的解释。第二种方法探索 一种基于X射线之间联系的数学模型的方法学 解释和出院诊断。这一方法有望 提供报告质量的全球衡量标准和重点衡量标准 关于报告来自胸部X光检查的特定发现的准确性。 质量保证计划的管理方法和 向放射科医生交付质量评估措施将是 作为该项目的一部分进行了研究。来自连续科学的方法 将使用质量改进并对其进行评估，以确定其 在这种环境下的有效性。

The goal of this project is to enhance the quality assurance tools available in the Radiology Department. The focus will be on the quality of the reports produced by radiologists. The underlying theory is that the clinical data captured by a Medical Information System can by used to critique the interpretations provided by radiologists for many of the x-ray procedures done in the hospital. Two approaches to measuring the quality of the reported information will be used. The first approach used specific clinical information from the Pathology Department and other computerized sources to corroborate interpretations recorded by radiologists. The second approach explores a methodology based on a mathematical model of the link between x-ray interpretations and discharge diagnoses. This approach promises to provide both a global measure of report quality and a measurement focused on reporting accuracy for specific findings from the chest x-ray. Approaches to the management of a quality assurance program and the delivery of quality assessment measures to the radiologists will be studied as a part of this project. Methods from the science of Continuous Quality Improvement will be used and will be evaluated to determine their effectiveness in this environment.