Paperless reporting and electronically verifying clinical investigations.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline considerations and steps taken to introduce electronic reporting and verification from systems design and multidisciplinary collaborations to gap analysis and devising solutions. It also evaluates carefully placed forcing functions' impact on verification rates.

Design/methodology/approach: A multidisciplinary workgroup was formed to stop print and establish electronic reporting.

Comprehensive noninvasive evaluation of bypass grafts and native coronary arteries in patients after coronary bypass surgery: accuracy of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography compared to invasive coronary angiography.

Aims: We assessed the accuracy of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) compared with that of invasive coronary angiography (ICA) in the evaluation of symptomatic postcoronary artery bypass graft (post-CABG) patients.

Methods: MDCT and ICA were performed in 44 consecutive post-CABG patients with chest pain (mean age 66 +/- 10 years, mean duration post-CABG 9 +/- 5 years). MDCT findings were compared with the corresponding ICA, which was read by an interventional cardiologist blinded to the MDCT findings.