Journal of the American College of Radiology

Jeff Waltz.

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Let's get some clarity.

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So maybe the lesson isn't that we should stop looking for better ways to detect disease earlier.

It's that we need to be just as rigorous about proving that earlier detection actually helps the people we're trying to serve.

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You're listening to Contrast and Clarity with the JACR.

I'm Maddie Wolfeck.

And I'm Jeff Waltz.

We're talking about why diagnostic errors may happen after the radiologist gets the diagnosis right, whether radiology AI actually pays for itself, what a breast biopsy needle shortage can teach us about supply chain resilience, how journals should disclose the use of generative AI, and even what radiology departments can learn from the World Cup, the Olympics, and evolving models of maternal mental health care.

So not a marathon this month, more of a sprint through some very practical ideas you might actually take back to your practice.

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When we hear diagnostic error in radiology, we usually think about something the radiologist missed, but this study asks us to zoom out.

What if the report is right, the recommendation is right, and then the system fails the patient? In this article called Identifying and Categorizing Diagnostic Errors in Abdominal Imaging Using a Diagnostic Imaging-Specific Annotation Process, Dr.

I think I'd like to close with something very timely.

Um, as you are quite aware, I'm sure, a few days ago in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, and I do mean days ago, today being May 15th.

A few days ago, an article, um, appeared in the Journal of American College of Radiology published by Dr. Anna Guan and others entitled Pediatric MR Safety: Frequency Types and Severity of Zone 4 MRI Safety Events at Five US Children's Hospitals.

I wonder if you'd be willing to, in, in closing, sort of give us your overview of what you felt about that article and, and its conclusions and recommendations and, and how you feel about s-safety in the MRI environment for pediatrics specifically.

Yeah, this was an interesting article.

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It feels like healthcare systems and CMS assume that faster radiology reports mean better care.

But is that actually true? This systematic review, called Threshold Benchmarking for Radiology Report Turnaround Times and Payment Programs, Current Thoughts and Literature Review, examines the evidence behind report turnaround time as a national quality metric.