Role of Ergonomic Improvements in Decreasing Repetitive Stress Injuries and Promoting Well-Being in a Radiology Department

Response to: Comment on: COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Papers

“…The source imaging needed for 3D reformatting can also carry its own direct and indirect costs. Direct costs include added storage costs for thin-section data, 3 while indirect costs include the need for a 3D post-processing lab to create reformatted images, an increase in magnetic resonance imaging scan time to achieve no-gap slice thickness, 4 and radiologist overuse injuries 5 and burnout 6 due to the increased number of images. For these reasons, they are not considered to be a part of today's consensus minimum achievable protocols.…”