Artificial Intelligence and Radiographer Preliminary Image Evaluation: What Might the Future Hold for Radiographers Providing X-ray Interpretation in the Acute Setting?

Overview

Journal J Med Radiat Sci

Specialties Nuclear Medicine
Radiology

Date 2024 Sep 20

PMID 39304330

Authors

Clare Rainey

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Abstract

In a stretched healthcare system, radiographer preliminary image evaluation in the acute setting can be a means to optimise patient care by reducing error and increasing efficiencies in the patient journey. Radiographers have shown impressive accuracies in the provision of these initial evaluations, however, barriers such as a lack of confidence and increased workloads have been cited as a reason for radiographer reticence in engagement with this practice. With advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for assistance in clinical decision-making, and indication that this may increase confidence in diagnostic decision-making with reporting radiographers, the author of this editorial wonders what the impact of this technology might be on clinical decision-making by radiographers in the provision of Preliminary Image Evaluation (PIE).

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