From Traditional Reading Rooms to a Soft Copy Environment: Radiologist Satisfaction Survey

Factors Associated with Repetitive Strain, and Strategies to Reduce Injury Among Breast-Imaging Radiologists

“…Such simple, inexpensive ergonomic interventions may help prevent continued or future RSI among radiologists by helping them assume neutral postures that reduce neck, shoulder, back, and wrist strain [6,8,11,29]. Proper ergonomic positioning and posture training has been endorsed repeatedly to prevent injury among radiologists working at the computer [8,20], and 80% of radiologists in Boiselle et al's study [20] reported improvement in RSS after such training.…”

“…But repetitive work at computer workstations can produce repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], which have the potential to decrease productivity. As case volumes increase in radiology practices [13,14], it is especially important for radiologists to know how to protect against RSI.…”

Satisfaction at work among radiologists

“…Nel Regno Unito un'indagine trasversale condotta nei primi anni '90 su 214 radiologi e altri tre gruppi di consulenti ospedalieri, al fine di valutare l'incidenza dello stress e dei disturbi ad esso correlato, ha stimato che il 27% dei consulenti presenta affezioni psichiatriche, senza significative differenze tra le varie specialità, ed ha dimostrato che la soddisfazione professionale ha un effetto protettivo sullo stress e substantially from other medical specialties in terms of interaction with patients, organisational and relational context and the speed of technological evolution. Indeed, it was the introduction of new technologies that recently prompted the publication of a series of papers that maintained that the changes to the physical work setting and organisation would increase job satisfaction among radiologists [13][14][15][16]. Oddly, the level of satisfaction of radiologists was not measured a priori in any of these studies, but only investigated historically after the introduction of the technological improvements.…”

“…È stata proprio l'introduzione di nuove tecnologie a motivare recentemente la pubblicazione di una serie di lavori, secondo i quali la modificazione dell'ambiente e dell'organizzazione di lavoro indurrebbero un aumento della soddisfazione professionale dei radiologi [13][14][15][16]. Curiosamente, i livelli di soddisfazione dei radiologi non sono stati misurati a priori in nessuno di tali studi, ma sono stati indagati anamnesticamente solo dopo l'introduzione del miglioramento tecnologico.…”

An Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Diagnostic Imaging

“…The adoption of PACS reading rooms has led to, for the most part, improved efficiency and decreased use of space compared to the use of film [4]. However, surveys of radiologists such as those performed by Rumreich & Johnson [5] have highlighted issues involving poor lighting, insufficient space, and few accommodations for large multi-monitor workstations. Similarly, a survey by Siegel et al [6] found some of the most important factors to radiologist productivity to be ambient room lighting and monitor number.…”