Dear Imaging Leaders Insider,
The childhood game of "telephone" shows how quickly communication can suffer if it's not tracked carefully. While it can be funny when you're playing around the table with a bunch of friends, it's a serious issue when you're trying to communicate a patient's clinical results in the hospital -- especially if the results are critical.
Poor critical results reporting not only leads to poor patient care, it also means radiologists are more exposed to malpractice suits, according to a new study published in this month's edition of Radiology.
But take heart: Putting a quality initiative in place can improve critical results communication dramatically. Find out how researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital boosted their radiologists' adherence to better results reporting by clicking here. As an Insider subscriber, you get access before the rest of our readers.
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