Structured Reporting: The Value Concept for Radiologists

Management Strategies to Promote Follow-Up Care for Incidental Findings: A Scoping Review

“…Conversely, enhanced templates and restructured workflow or communication pathways automated use of guidelines. Prior research suggests that passive and nonautomated strategies to educate or remind clinicians often result in inconsistent adoption of the desired behavior change [32,33], whereas automated strategies streamline and standardize radiologists' decisionmaking processes [34,35].…”

“…1 [32] Cost of enhanced reporting, communication and clinical pathway model 1 [35] Clinician preference for enhanced radiology reports 1 [29] (continued) Increased clinician understanding of IF significance 1 [29] Increased clinician confidence in carrying out recommended follow-up care 1 [29] Phase 4: Patient or family member is informed of findings, recommendations (n ¼ 5). Percent of patient records with documented communication about the IF between a clinician and the patient 2 [23,34] Mode of communicating IF results to patient (eg, letter, telephone call, clinical visit)…”

“…1 [26] Percent of guideline concordant vs discordant follow-up care delivered 6 [24,25,28,29,31,32] Percent of guideline discordant follow-up care that results in over-or undermanagement 5 [25,28,29,31,32] Patient satisfaction with IF care management 1 [32] Phase 7: Incidentaloma is resolved (n ¼ 5). Percent of patients lost to follow-up care 1 [31] Percent of IFs that remain under observation 1 [35] Percent of patients with definitive diagnosis (eg, neoplastic, inflammatory, benign)…”