A study of the usefulness of inspection of radiology reports in the emergency room

Abstract

Data from this study suggest that inspection of radiology reports of CT or MRI by emergency doctors after patients went home is useful in finding characteristics suggestive of tumors in 0.7% of all radiology reports and is necessary to identify important changes that should be made in treatment plans in 0.8% of all radiology reports.

Factors associated with emergency department length of stay of foreign patients visiting a regional core hospital in Japan

“…In our study, we defined EDLOS as the time from arrival to disposition decision in the ED, taking into account the effect of ward bed availability and other factors. Age was not found to be associated with EDLOS, but this finding may have been influenced by the fact that our current population was relatively younger than patients in the same setting (as reported in our previous study of patients including Japanese nationality) 15 . Furthermore, although we considered that the mode of arrival and triage level are associated with illness severity, the association between triage level and EDLOS was not elucidated in this study.…”

“…Age was not found to be associated with EDLOS, but this finding may have been influenced by the fact that our current population was relatively younger than patients in the same setting (as reported in our previous study of patients including Japanese nationality). 15 Furthermore, although we considered that the mode of arrival and triage level are associated with illness severity, the association between triage level and EDLOS was not elucidated in this study. However, this may have been due to the fact that cases with ambulance and helicopter arrival were assigned a high triage level in the analysis.…”