Table 3.
PACS performance descriptives
| Hospital A | Hospital B | All pilot respondents | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | M | Mean | SD | M | Mean | SD | M | |
| Clinical contribution | |||||||||
| C1 | 5.50 | 1.29 | 5.50 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 5.17 | 1.17 | 5.00 |
| C2 | 6.25 | 0.50 | 6.00 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 6.63 | 0.52 | 7.00 |
| C3 | 4.33 | 2.08 | 5.00 | 5.25 | 1.71 | 5.50 | 4.86 | 1.77 | 5.00 |
| C4 | 5.33 | 0.58 | 5.00 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 6.50 | 5.80 | 0.84 | 6.00 |
| Organizational efficiency | |||||||||
| O1 | 4.75 | 0.96 | 4.50 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 4.86 | 0.69 | 5.00 |
| O2 | 3.00 | 1.41 | 3.00 | 6.33 | 0.58 | 6.00 | 5.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| Service construct | |||||||||
| S1 | 4.50 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 5.25 | 1.04 | 5.50 |
| S2 | 5.25 | 0.50 | 5.00 | 2.25 | 0.96 | 2.50 | 3.75 | 1.75 | 4.00 |
| S3 | 5.25 | 0.50 | 5.00 | 5.75 | 0.50 | 6.00 | 5.50 | 0.53 | 5.50 |
| S4 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 5.75 | 0.50 | 6.00 | 5.86 | 0.38 | 6.00 |
| Technical information system | |||||||||
| T1 | 4.50 | 1.91 | 4.00 | 5.25 | 2.87 | 6.50 | 4.88 | 2.30 | 5.50 |
| T2 | 5.50 | 1.29 | 5.50 | 6.50 | 0.58 | 6.50 | 6.00 | 1.07 | 6.00 |
| T3 | 5.50 | 1.29 | 5.50 | 5.00 | 0.82 | 5.00 | 5.25 | 1.04 | 5.00 |
Productivity was calculated using the total amount of exams (and specified per modality) divided by the total capacity (i.e., FTE radiologists)