Table 2.
Patient and abdominal imaging examination characteristics for which a secondary interpretation was requested (N = 2225)
| Variable | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Female | 1260 (56.6) |
| Male | 965 (43.4) |
| Hospital status | |
| Inpatient | 95 (4.3) |
| Outpatient | 2130 (95.7) |
| Indication for the secondary interpretation | |
| Infectious | 10 (0.4) |
| Inflammatory | 43 (1.9) |
| Oncologic | 1705 (76.6) |
| Trauma | 18 (0.8) |
| Vascular | 21 (0.9) |
| Miscellaneous | 428 (19.2) |
| Imaging modalities for secondary interpretation* | |
| CT | 1839 (71.8) |
| Fluoroscopy | 14 (0.5) |
| MRI | 668 (26.1) |
| Ultrasonography | 31 (1.2) |
| X-Ray | 10 (0.4) |
| Number of imaging modalities per secondary interpretation | |
| 1 | 1898 (85.3) |
| 2 | 322 (14.5) |
| 3 | 4 (0.2) |
| 4 | 1 (0.0) |
| Body region for secondary interpretation* | |
| Full abdomen | 593 (23.1) |
| Upper abdomen | 454 (17.7) |
| Lower abdomen | 256 (10.0) |
| Full chest and abdomen | 1089 (42.5) |
| Abdomen in combination with other body regions | 129 (5.0) |
| Scans of other body regions | 41 (1.6) |
| Recommendation for additional imaging (RAI) | |
| Yes | 239 (10.7) |
| No | 1984 (89.2) |
*As some secondary imaging interpretations involved an evaluation of multiple imaging modalities, the numbers of imaging modalities and body regions for secondary interpretation are higher than the number of reports included in this study