Clinician and computer: a study on doctors' perceptions of artificial intelligence in skeletal radiography.

Background: Traumatic musculoskeletal injuries are a common presentation to emergency care, the first-line investigation often being plain radiography. The interpretation of this imaging frequently falls to less experienced clinicians despite well-established challenges in reporting. This study presents novel data of clinicians' confidence in interpreting trauma radiographs, their perception of AI in healthcare, and their support for the development of systems applied to skeletal radiography.

Seasonal and climatic variation in the incidence of adult acute appendicitis: a seven year longitudinal analysis.

Background: Acute appendicitis represents an extremely common surgical emergency, yet its aetiology remains uncertain. A multifactorial understanding of its causation has emerged along with increasing evidence of seasonal variation. This study seeks to find evidence for such a circannual trend within the United Kingdom (UK), and further assess key meteorological indicators which may be causative of any such variation.

Reporting Discrepancy Resolved by Findings and Time in 2947 Emergency Department Ankle X-rays.

Aims: To identify common errors in ankle X-ray reporting between initial interpretation and final assessment at the virtual fracture clinic. Also, to assess time of initial reporting as a causative factor for discrepancy.

Methods: Two thousand nine hundred forty-seven final reports were reviewed by standard of agreement to the initial interpretation.