Remote reporting in the COVID-19 era: from pilot study to practice

AIM: To assess the benefits and challenges of remote reporting using an intra-departmental teleradiology system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pilot of an in-hospital Trust radiologist reporting on in-hospital Trust patients via a remote login was undertaken. Reporting output, training impact, and qualit...

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Autores principales: Dick, E.A., Raithatha, A., Musker, L., Redhead, J., Mehta, A., Amiras, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32654757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.06.016
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author Dick, E.A.
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description AIM: To assess the benefits and challenges of remote reporting using an intra-departmental teleradiology system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pilot of an in-hospital Trust radiologist reporting on in-hospital Trust patients via a remote login was undertaken. Reporting output, training impact, and quality improvement were measured. RESULTS: Reporting output increased by 140%. Trainee satisfaction was high in a qualitative survey, particularly for out-of-hours support and teaching. Clinicians found the service to be similar to the same service provided by a locally based radiologist. CONCLUSION: In the COVID-19 era, remote working has developed rapidly. This study shows that radiology departments can provide remote reporting that is equal in standard to reporting from within the hospital, and in addition, that there are advantages to output and training.
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spelling pubmed-73285882020-07-01 Remote reporting in the COVID-19 era: from pilot study to practice Dick, E.A. Raithatha, A. Musker, L. Redhead, J. Mehta, A. Amiras, D. Clin Radiol Review AIM: To assess the benefits and challenges of remote reporting using an intra-departmental teleradiology system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pilot of an in-hospital Trust radiologist reporting on in-hospital Trust patients via a remote login was undertaken. Reporting output, training impact, and quality improvement were measured. RESULTS: Reporting output increased by 140%. Trainee satisfaction was high in a qualitative survey, particularly for out-of-hours support and teaching. Clinicians found the service to be similar to the same service provided by a locally based radiologist. CONCLUSION: In the COVID-19 era, remote working has developed rapidly. This study shows that radiology departments can provide remote reporting that is equal in standard to reporting from within the hospital, and in addition, that there are advantages to output and training. The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-09 2020-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7328588/ /pubmed/32654757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.06.016 Text en © 2020 The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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