Inexperienced clinicians can extract pathoanatomic information from MRI narrative reports with high reproducibility for use in research/quality assurance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although reproducibility in reading MRI images amongst radiologists and clinicians has been studied previously, no studies have examined the reproducibility of inexperienced clinicians in extracting pathoanatomic information from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) narrative reports and transforming that information into quantitative data. However, this process is frequently required in research and quality assurance contexts. The purpose of this study was to examine inter-rater reproducibility (agreement and reliability) among an inexperienced group of clinicians in extracting spinal pathoanatomic information from radiologist-generated MRI narrative reports.

Methods

Twenty MRI narrative reports were randomly extracted from an institutional database. A group of three

SUBMITTER: Kent P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3154850 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature