title: Error in radiology.
abstract: Literature review indicates high levels of error within radiology. The aetiology of radiological error is multi-factorial. While individuals have a duty to progressively improve their performance, the experience of safety cultures in other high-risk human activities has shown that a system approach of root cause analysis is the method required to reduce error significantly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000592:standards; D015588:Observer Variation; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011859:Radiography / Q000592:standards*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000592:standards