Introduction The practice of medicine frequently requires that physicians make critical diagnostic and treatment decisions with incomplete information, working in a background of high uncertainty. The specialty of diagnostic radiology is not exempt from this reality. Although people in other…
Introduction It is indeed human to err, yet unrealistic expectations for perfection persist throughout the practice of medicine. For radiology, the challenge has increased substantially in recent years due to rapidly advancing imaging technologies, increasing volumes of studies, each with…
Introduction Errors are innate in every field of medicine and persist despite the best efforts of medical professionals to be (or become) flawless. In fact, the prevalence of errors by radiologists (i.e., the radiology error rate) has been remarkably constant…