Assessment of discordance between radiologists and emergency physicians of RADIOgraphs among discharged patients in an emergency department: the RADIO-ED study.

Background: The possibility to perform standard X-rays is mandatory for all French Emergency Department (ED). Initial interpretation is under the prescriber emergency physician-who continually works under extreme conditions, but a radiologist needs to describe a report as soon as possible. We decided to assess the rate of discordance between emergency physicians and radiologists among discharged patients.

Does rheumatoid synovitis activity vary during the day? Evaluation with color doppler sonography.

Background: Clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) improve in the course of the day, as can synovitis activity, reported via doppler ultrasound (US). The aim of the study was to establish whether the Color Doppler (CD) scores of synovitis in RA changes throughout the day.

Methods: In total, 27 patients with active RA, including 14 patients receiving corticosteroids were studied.