Quality assessment of out sourced after-hours computed tomography teleradiology reports in a Central London University Hospital

The Empirical Foundations of Teleradiology and Related Applications: A Review of the Evidence

“…128 This study evaluated diagnostic agreement in an international teleradiology program based in the United Kingdom and Australia. Assessment of agreement on diagnosis was made by a panel of in-house radiologists using a five-point scale, ranging from (1) no disagreement to (5) unequivocal potential for serious morbidity or threat to life versus outsourced teleradiology.…”

Addressing requests for emergency ultrasonographic examinations when implementing teleradiology services

“…Although the impact of setting up an after-hours teleradiology service on the interpretation of slice imaging procedures has already been assessed [3,7], this is, to our knowledge, to first study to assess the need for ultrasound within such a service.…”

Double Reading of Outsourced CT/MR Radiology Reports: Retrospective Analysis

“…Since 2001, with the CT scan and teleradiology develop ments in North America, United Kingdom, and Australia, some previous reports have proposed a disagreement rate evaluation of outsourced teleradiology based on a second opinion performed by in house radiologists, with major discrepancy rates or clinically significant errors of teleradiologist <1.5%. [18][19][20][21] Other studies have evaluated in house radiologists, registrars or residents during after hours for CT scan interpretations with discrepancy rates <5% and for MR scan interpretations with a major discrepancy rate of 4.2%. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Although there were slight differences in the methodology of these studies, major disagreement rate observed in our study is in accordance with those presented above.…”