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SVMIC Diagnostic Radiology: Interpreting the Risks

percent.
5

Despite advances in imaging technology, there is no evidence

of improvement in the perceptual abilities of the human eye
and brain. Given this human limitation, many of the solutions

developed to decrease interpretive error are technology-based.

Potential solutions include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain a state of constant vigilance in interpretation and

a healthy degree of skepticism regarding favor diagnoses

• Make efforts to overcome all known cognitive biases and

pitfalls

• Consistent use of a sufficiently broad range of differential

diagnoses when formulating conclusions about unknown
cases being evaluated

• Reduce variation or variability in practice at all levels

• Engage in a program of continuous lifelong learning to
prevent knowledge gaps

• Employ a mindful systematic approach to the search
of diagnostic images and to the use of checklists and

structured and semi-structured reporting strategies, when
appropriate

• Utilize cognitive debiasing approaches and metacognition,
when appropriate

• Use effective technologic aids, as appropriate, if any
become available

5 Berlin, L., “Accuracy of Diagnostic Procedures: Has it Improved Over the Past Five Decades,” AJR
2007;188:1173-1178.

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