Radiology Business September 19, 2024
Marty Stempniak

An academic hospital has launched a quality improvement project aimed at standardizing multidisciplinary conferences and reducing radiologists’ related administrative burden.

Members of the specialty play a pivotal role in these situations, impacting treatment decisions for patients with diverse oncologic conditions. Abdominal scans can show a particularly high discrepancy rate when compared to the original interpretation, experts wrote in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal [1]. However, clinical information provided to specialists preparing for these conferences can vary widely.

The University of Toronto has aimed to standardize the process, conducting a survey of participating abdominal radiologists to determine how to make their lives easier.

“Radiologists are key contributors to [multidisciplinary case conferences], which are crucial in the management...

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