Structured reports of pelvic magnetic resonance imaging in primary endometrial cancer: Potential benefits for clinical decision-making
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Mar 28, 2019
Liu Y, et al. - In patients with primary endometrial cancer, researchers assessed how structured reports (SRs) and non-structured reports (NSRs) of pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) influence referring gynecologists’ satisfaction, further decision-making and efficiency. They generated SRs and NSRs for local MRI staging of endometrial cancer in 41 patients. The number of key features was not significantly different in NSRs vs SRs. Three gynecologists showed a statistically significant difference in the satisfaction with linguistic quality for NSRs vs SRs (reader 1: 4.02 vs 4.63; reader 3: 3.86 vs 4.02; reader 4: 4.05 vs 4.27). Less time was taken by the radiologist finishing SRs vs NSRs. Findings thus suggest that the application of SRs increase radiologists’ work efficiency and gynecologists’ satisfaction, which significantly increased the value of female pelvic MRI reports.
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