Summary: Radiolog Radiology

The book written by Kohn which was published in 1999’s Institute of Medicine report, entitled “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” speaks about 98,000 Americans in the nation perish due to preventable medical errors. As a matter of fact, the aggregate annual number of death from every hospital in is greater compared to the number of vehicular deaths, individuals dying from breast cancer and even AIDS (Kohn, 2000). To date, there are measures that have been adopted by hospitals, managed care organizations, rehabilitation facilities and what not regarding patient safety quality, and efficiency that are most relevant to consumers and purchasers of care. By doing so, the healthcare systems will be able to achieve hospital-wide improvements that translate into millions of lives and dollars saved. However, despite rigid safeguards in place there will always be an opportunity for errors. …show more content…
According to the article written by authors Pinto and Brunesele (2010), analysis of errors by the radiologist is usually caused from improper technique, insufficient knowledge and information and failure of perception. The research indicated that most errors that were reviewed exhibited complacency, lack of communication between physician and radiologist, complications especially during invasive procedures, and faulty reasoning (Brady, Laoide, McCarthy, Mcdemont, 2012). Moreover, several of the contributing factors causing inconsistencies and incoherent interpretations are attributed to the increase volume of work, staff shortages, incompetent equipment, inexperienced employees, and insufficiency of clinical information (Brady et al.,