title: Peer review in diagnostic radiology: current state and a vision for the future.
abstract: Over the past decade, the level of interest in improving the quality of healthcare in the United States has increased. New requirements established by regulatory organizations require the ongoing practice-based evaluation of physician performance. Peer review, a key process in physician performance evaluation, is geared primarily toward measuring diagnostic accuracy. Accuracy may be measured in terms of interpretive agreement or disagreement during a blinded double reading or in workstation-integrated evaluations. Each method of assessing diagnostic accuracy has strengths and weaknesses that should be carefully considered before it is implemented in a particular departmental or institutional setting.
authors: Department of Radiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors: Shmuel
authors: S
authors: Mahgerefteh
authors: Jonathan B
authors: JB
authors: Kruskal
authors: Chun S
authors: CS
authors: Yam
authors: Arye
authors: A
authors: Blachar
authors: Jacob
authors: J
authors: Sosna
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D010380:Peer Review; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011871:Radiology / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States