Publications by authors named "Allen Dufault"
Article Synopsis
- Medicare requires active documentation of teaching physicians' involvement in trainee-generated radiology reports, and automated methods currently don't meet this standard.
- A quality improvement intervention was implemented at a teaching hospital, which included a policy for radiologists to actively attest to reports and a system for reminding them when this was missing.
- Results showed that 99% of reports had the required attestation after the intervention, and while initial compliance was high, the number of added attestations decreased significantly over the following months, indicating a sustained improvement in adherence.
Purpose: Radiology report signature time (ST) can be a substantial component of total report turnaround time. Poor turnaround time resulting from lengthy ST can adversely affect patient care. The combination of technology adoption with financial incentive was evaluated to determine if ST improvement can be augmented and sustained.
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