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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2014 Nov;203(5):933–938. doi: 10.2214/AJR.14.13064

TABLE 2.

Adherence to Policy for Communication of Critical Test Results for All Results Communicated Using Alert Notification of Critical Results (ANCR) System

Year Total No. of Radiology Reports Red-Level Alerts Orange-Level Alerts Yellow-Level Alerts Total No. of ANCR Alerts (% of Total) Total % of Reports Adherent to Policya

No. (% of Total) % Adherent to Policy No. (% of Total) % Adherent to Policy No. (% of Total) % Adherent to Policy

2010 363,332 178 (0.1) 96.1 1819 (0.5) 92.5 5846 (1.6) 89.8 7843 (2.2) 90.7
2011 382,983 542 (0.1) 97.2 9816 (2.6) 97.6 18,126 (4.7) 98.0 28,484 (7.4) 97.9
2012 388,721 278 (0.1) 98.6 10,176 (2.6) 96.9 21,202 (5.5) 98.7 31,656 (8.1) 98.1
2013 403,023 298 (0.1) 96.0 8582 (2.1) 94.9 24,540 (6.1) 98.0 33,420 (8.3) 97.9
Total 1,538,059 1296 (0.1) 97.4 30,393 (2.0) 96.9 69,714 (4.5) 97.3 101,403 (6.6) 97.1
a

Chi-square trend test, p < 0.0001.