Can radiologist training and testing ensure high performance in CT colonography? Lessons from the national CT colonography trial

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-125

  Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Chen, Mei Hsiu ^b   Herman, Benjamin A ^b,c   Daniel Johnson, C ^a   Toledano, Alicia ^b   Dachman, Abraham H ^d   Hara, Amy K ^e   Fidler, Jeff L ^a   Menias, Christine O ^f   Coakley, Kevin J ^g   Kuo, Mark ^h   Horton, Karen M ⁱ   Cheema, Jugesh ^j   Iyer, Revathy ^k   Siewert, Bettina ^l   Yee, Judy ^m   Obregon, Richard ⁿ   Zimmerman, Peter ^o   Halvorsen, Robert ^p   Casola, Giovanna ^q   Morrin, Martina ^l   more..

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Clinical Radiologists SC   (United States)

^h Scottsdale Medical Imaging   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^l BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ Radiology Imaging Associates   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

ACRIN; CT; CT colonography; Radiologist training; Reader performance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; READING; SCREENING; TRAINING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77954745028     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3659     Document Type: Article

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