TABLE A1.
Frequency | False-positive Reason | Example |
---|---|---|
6* | Description of radiology study limitations | “respiratory motion limits evaluation for pulmonary embolism,” “small emboli in the segmental and subsegmental arteries can be missed” |
3* | Description of superficial vein | “superficial venous thrombosis of the left basilic vein” |
1* | Recommendation for additional testing | “nuclear study can be performed as clinically indicated for evaluation of pulmonary emboli” |
1 | Contradictory/ambiguous descriptions | “findings can be seen with … sequela of chronic pulmonary embolism, although there is no direct evidence of chronic pulmonary embolism” |
1 | Radiology report syntax typo | “1. no pulmonary embolism” (no space between “1.”+“no”) |
Ten false-positives could be averted in the future by adding these learned terminology to existing controlled vocabulary in IDEAL-X.