Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines
Imaging reports are the primary method of communicating diagnostic imaging findings between the radiologist and the referring clinician. Guidelines produced by professional bodies provide guidance on content and format of imaging reports, but the extent to which they consider comprehensibility for r...
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author | Farmer, Caitlin I. Bourne, Allison M. O’Connor, Denise Jarvik, Jeffrey G. Buchbinder, Rachelle |
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description | Imaging reports are the primary method of communicating diagnostic imaging findings between the radiologist and the referring clinician. Guidelines produced by professional bodies provide guidance on content and format of imaging reports, but the extent to which they consider comprehensibility for referring clinicians and their patients is unclear. The objective of this review was to determine the extent to which radiology reporting guidelines consider comprehensibility of imaging reports for referring clinicians and patients. We performed a scoping review of English-language diagnostic imaging reporting guidelines. We searched electronic databases (OVID MEDLINE, Embase) and websites of radiological professional organisations to identify guidelines. The extent to which the guidelines recommended essential report features such as technical information, content, format and language, as well as features to enhance comprehensibility, such as lay language summaries, was recorded. Six guidelines from professional bodies representing radiologists from the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and Europe were identified from the search. Inconsistencies exist between guidelines in their recommendations, and they rarely consider that patients may read the report. No guideline made recommendations about the reporting of results considering the clinical context, and none recommended features preferred by patients such as lay language summaries. This review identifies an opportunity for future radiology reporting guidelines to give greater consideration to referring clinician and patient preferences. |
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spelling | pubmed-72009552020-05-12 Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines Farmer, Caitlin I. Bourne, Allison M. O’Connor, Denise Jarvik, Jeffrey G. Buchbinder, Rachelle Insights Imaging Critical Review Imaging reports are the primary method of communicating diagnostic imaging findings between the radiologist and the referring clinician. Guidelines produced by professional bodies provide guidance on content and format of imaging reports, but the extent to which they consider comprehensibility for referring clinicians and their patients is unclear. The objective of this review was to determine the extent to which radiology reporting guidelines consider comprehensibility of imaging reports for referring clinicians and patients. We performed a scoping review of English-language diagnostic imaging reporting guidelines. We searched electronic databases (OVID MEDLINE, Embase) and websites of radiological professional organisations to identify guidelines. The extent to which the guidelines recommended essential report features such as technical information, content, format and language, as well as features to enhance comprehensibility, such as lay language summaries, was recorded. Six guidelines from professional bodies representing radiologists from the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and Europe were identified from the search. Inconsistencies exist between guidelines in their recommendations, and they rarely consider that patients may read the report. No guideline made recommendations about the reporting of results considering the clinical context, and none recommended features preferred by patients such as lay language summaries. This review identifies an opportunity for future radiology reporting guidelines to give greater consideration to referring clinician and patient preferences. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7200955/ /pubmed/32372369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00864-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Critical Review Farmer, Caitlin I. Bourne, Allison M. O’Connor, Denise Jarvik, Jeffrey G. Buchbinder, Rachelle Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title | Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title_full | Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title_fullStr | Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title_short | Enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
title_sort | enhancing clinician and patient understanding of radiology reports: a scoping review of international guidelines |
topic | Critical Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32372369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00864-9 |
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