What Influences the Way Radiologists Express Themselves in Their Reports? A Quantitative Assessment Using Natural Language Processing.

Although using standardized reports is encouraged, most emergency radiological reports in France remain in free-text format that can be mined with natural language processing for epidemiological purposes, activity monitoring or data collection. These reports are obtained under various on-call conditions by radiologists with various backgrounds. Our aim was to investigate what influences the radiologists' written expressions.

Practical clinical and radiological models to diagnose COVID-19 based on a multicentric teleradiological emergency chest CT cohort.

Our aim was to develop practical models built with simple clinical and radiological features to help diagnosing Coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19] in a real-life emergency cohort. To do so, 513 consecutive adult patients suspected of having COVID-19 from 15 emergency departments from 2020-03-13 to 2020-04-14 were included as long as chest CT-scans and real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results were available (244 [47.6%] with a positive RT-PCR).

Teleradiology as a relevant indicator of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic management on emergency room activities: a nationwide worrisome survey.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of COVID-19's lockdown on radiological examinations in emergency services.

Methods: Retrospective, multicentre analysis of radiological examinations requested, via our teleradiology network, from 2017 to 2020 during two timeframes (calendar weeks 5-8 and then 12-15). We included CT scans or MRIs performed for strokes, multiple traumas (Body-CT), cranial traumas (CTr) and acute non-traumatic abdominal pain (ANTAP).

The accuracy of teleradiologists in diagnosing COVID-19 based on a French multicentric emergency cohort.

Objectives: To evaluate the accuracy of diagnoses of COVID-19 based on chest CT as well as inter-observer agreement between teleradiologists during on-call duty and senior radiologists in suspected COVID-19 patients.

Materials And Methods: From March 13, 2020, to April 14, 2020, consecutive suspected COVID-19 adult patients who underwent both an RT-PCR test and chest CT from 15 hospitals were included in this prospective study. Chest CTs were immediately interpreted by the on-call teleradiologist and were systematically blind reviewed by a senior radiologist.

Whole-Body CT in Patients with Multiple Traumas: Factors Leading to Missed Injury.

Purpose To determine radiologic and clinical markers predictive of missed injuries at early whole-body CT image interpretation. Materials and Methods For this retrospective study, 2354 consecutive whole-body CT examinations were performed in patients with multiple traumas from 26 hospitals interpreted at a teleradiology center study during on-call period from February 2011 to September 2016. All whole-body CT images were interpreted by the on-call radiologist and reviewed within 12-48 hours by another radiologist to detect missed injury as the standard of reference.

Myositis in a patient with familial Mediterranean fever and spondyloarthritis successfully treated with anakinra.

Familial Mediterranean fever is an autosomal-recessive autoinflammatory disorder more commonly observed in Mediterranean populations and characterized by recurrent episodes of fever, serositis, myalgia and arthritis. There is rarely any association with spondyloarthritis. The most important long-term complication is progressive systemic type AA amyloidosis.