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. 2015 Feb 19;28(4):492–498. doi: 10.1007/s10278-015-9781-9

Table 1.

Radiology reports

Reports Cumulative (19 months) Pre-intervention (4 months) Post-intervention (15 months) P value (pre/post)
Total number of reports generated 391,657 82,353 309,304
Number of reports flagged by error detection algorithm 826 (0.21 %) 198 (0.24 %) 628 (0.20 %) 0.04
 Laterality 547 (0.14 %) 124 (0.15 %) 423 (0.14 %)
 Gender mismatch 279 (0.07 %) 74 (0.09 %) 205 (0.06 %)
Flagged reports that are positive for errors (true positives) 401 (0.10 %) 116 (0.14 %) 285 (0.09 %) <0.0001
 Laterality 141 (0.04 %) 43 (0.05 %) 98 (0.03 %)
 Gender mismatch 260 (0.07 %) 73 (0.09 %) 187 (0.07 %)
Confirmed errors that were ultimately corrected 64 % (256/401) 15 % (17/116) 84 % (239/285) <0.0001
Laterality error precision 26 % (141/547) 35 % (43/124) 23 % (98/423)
Gender error precision 93 % (260/279) 99 % (73/74) 91 % (187/205)