Journal Club: Voice recognition dictation: analysis of report volume and use of the send-to-editor function.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate use of the send-to-editor function of a radiology voice recognition dictation system and compare study volumes of radiologists who self-edit with those of radiologists who send reports to the editor. Use of voice recognition shortcuts was also evaluated.

Materials And Methods: Voice recognition dictation systems were installed in a six-hospital system, including an 800-bed tertiary care center and five community hospitals, in 2002.

Limb chondrogenesis is compromised in the versican deficient hdf mouse.

It has been suggested that the matrix proteoglycan, versican, may perform a functional role during early events of limb skeletogenesis largely by virtue of its spatiotemporal expression pattern in precartilage mesenchymal aggregations. The versican-deficient hdf transgenic mouse has provided the first model to explore the implications of a null mature versican on limb chondrogenesis. Due to lethality of hdf homozygous embryos prior to limb cartilage differentiation, high-density micromass cultures were employed to compare the chondrogenic capacity of hdf mutant limb mesenchyme to that of wild-type.