title: Analysis of the chest X-ray conference in an intensive care unit.
abstract: Bed chest X-rays carried out in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are an important means of patient monitoring. To get the starting points for standardization of the documentation of X-ray findings, we examined course and contents of the daily X-ray conference in an ICU. We video-taped the conferences and registered its vocabulary.Mean entire duration to comment on the X-rays of one patient was 150 s. On an average, discussion between radiologist and anaesthetist lasted 40 s, dictation of findings 50 s. Sorting and viewing the X-rays took 60 s. Main disruptions were related to non-availability of X-rays and clinical patient data. Clinical information reported during the discussion is rarely mentioned in the dictated findings.
authors.affiliation: ATV Section, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Federolf
authors.affiliation: ATV Section, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Syré
authors.affiliation: ATV Section, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Groß-Alltag
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wiedeck
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bader
authors.affiliation: ATV Section, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Friesdorf
keywords: Diagnostic X-ray; Documentation; Information systems; Intensive care units