BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Several studies have examined clinician preferences
regarding the style of body sonography and CT reports. Our study is the first to examine …

Background Lumbar spine diagnostic imaging reports may cause patient and clinician
concern when clinically unimportant findings are not explicitly described as benign. Our …

OBJECTIVE. Radiology reports have traditionally been written for referring clinical providers.
However, as patients increasingly access their radiology reports through online medical …

X-rays of patients with lower back pain rarely show serious pathology but frequently reveal
incidental age-related changes and always expose people to radiation. Patients who have X …

Purpose To retrospectively examine the association between the inclusion of epidemiologic
information in lumbar spine magnetic resonance (MR) imaging reports regarding findings in …

Objective To evaluate the effect of inserting epidemiological information into lumbar spine
imaging reports on subsequent nonsurgical and surgical procedures involving the …

Purpose Inappropriate use of MRI leads to increasing interventions and surgeries for low
back pain (LBP). We probed the potential effects of a routine MRI report on the patient's …

Purpose To assess agreement between trained radiographers and consultant radiologists
compared with an index radiologist when reporting on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

The electronic medical record (EMR) can reveal preferences of clinicians regarding imaging
services. We sought to evaluate viewing habits for reports and images of musculoskeletal …

Abstract Purpose Lumbar spine (LS) MRI overuse may be identified in administrative data,
but these data may lack the detailed clinical information needed to correctly assess overuse …