Figure 1
Distribution of responses to the question: “Which system of radiological reporting do you prefer?”
This question was reserved for the group of radiologists (N = 55). Forty-seven radiologists answered the question. Forty-five radiologists (95.7%) preferred the centralized/subspecialized system of radiological reporting. Seven radiologists chose the non-applicable option (excluded). One missing answer (excluded).
Table 1
| N | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Agree Completely | 1,131 | 21.7 |
| Agree Somewhat | 1,907 | 36.5 |
| Neutral | 1,225 | 23.5 |
| Disagree Somewhat | 158 | 3.0 |
| Disagree Completely | 15 | 0.3 |
| Non-applicable | 764 | 14.6 |
| Missing answers | 18 | 0.3 |
| Total | 5,218 | 100 |
Table 2
Results of the questions for radiologists and radiologic technicians.
| RADIOLOGISTS (R) AND RADIOLOGIC TECHNICIANS (T) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTIONS | N (%) | APPROVEMENT LEVEL | P-VALUE | ||||
| AGREE COMPLETELY | AGREE SOMEWHAT | NEUTRAL | DISAGREE SOMEWHAT | DISAGREE COMPLETELY | |||
| Ra | 22 (47.8) | 17 (37.0) | 7 (15.2) | 0 | 0 | 84.8% | p = 0.911 |
| Rb | 27 (54.0) | 13 (26.0) | 5 (10.0) | 5 (10.0) | 0 | 80.0% | |
| Ta | 19 (27.5) | 28 (40.6) | 17 (24.6) | 5 (7.2) | 0 | 68.1% | p = 0.158 |
| Tb | 28 (38.4) | 27 (37.0) | 15 (20.5) | 2 (2.7) | 1 (1.4) | 75.5% | |
| Rc | 9 (19.6) | 33 (71.7) | 4 (8.7) | 0 | 0 | 91.3% | p = 0.013 |
| Rd | 21 (40.4) | 30 (57.7) | 1 (1.9) | 0 | 0 | 98.1% | |
| R1 | 5 (10.6) | 25 (53.2) | 13 (27.7) | 4 (8.5) | 0 | 63.8% | Not applicable |
| T1 | 8 (11.8) | 28 (41.2) | 25 (36.8) | 7 (10.3) | 0 | 53.0% | Not applicable |
| R2 | 7 (14.6) | 26 (54.2) | 13 (27.1) | 2 (4.2) | 0 | 68.8% | Not applicable |
| R3 | 10 (22.7) | 19 (43.2) | 14 (31.8) | 1 (2.3) | 0 | 65.9% | Not applicable |
| Tc | 10 (14.1) | 47 (66.2) | 11 (15.5) | 2 (2.8) | 1 (1.4) | 80.3% | p = 0.87 |
| Td | 16 (21.6) | 40 (54.1) | 11 (14.9) | 7 (9.5) | 0 | 75.7% | |
| Te | 11 (16.4) | 36 (53.7) | 17 (25.4) | 3 (4.5) | 0 | 70.1% | p = 0.277 |
| Tf | 15 (21.7) | 39 (56.5) | 11 (15.9) | 4 (5.8) | 0 | 78.2% | |
[i] [Capital-letters (‘R’ and ‘T’) indicate R = radiologists and T = radiologic technicians. Lower-case letters (‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’ and ‘f’’) and the digits (‘1’, ‘2’ and ‘3’) abbreviate the individual questions as listed in Table 4].
Table 3
Results of the questions for referring physicians.
| REFERRING CLINICIANS – MAIN HOSPITAL (H) AND NON-MAIN HOSPITALS (N) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTIONS | N (%) | APPROVEMENT LEVEL | P-VALUE | ||||
| AGREE COMPLETELY | AGREE SOMEWHAT | NEUTRAL | DISAGREE SOMEWHAT | DISAGREE COMPLETELY | |||
| Ha | 53 (34.9) | 76 (50.0) | 20 (13.2) | 3 (2.0) | 0 | 84.9% | p < 0.001 |
| Hb | 99 (56.9) | 65 (37.4) | 9 (5.2) | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 94.3% | |
| Na | 30 (44.1) | 21 (30.9) | 15 (22.1) | 2 (2.9) | 0 | 74.5% | p = 0.951 |
| Nb | 40 (44.0) | 31 (34.1) | 14 (15.4) | 5 (5.5) | 1 (1.1) | 78.1% | |
| Hc | 23 (15.5) | 102 (57.3) | 22 (14.9) | 1 (0.7) | 0 | 72.8% | p = 0.001 |
| Hd | 51 (30.0) | 106 (62.4) | 13 (7.6) | 0 | 0 | 92.4% | |
| Nc | 13 (19.4) | 36 (53.7) | 16 (23.9) | 2 (3.0) | 0 | 73.1% | p = 0.677 |
| Nd | 15 (16.1) | 59 (63.4) | 19 (20.4) | 0 | 0 | 79.5% | |
| H1 | 38 (26.4) | 66 (45.8) | 39 (27.1) | 1 (0.7) | 0 | 72.2% | Not applicable |
| N1 | 18 (26.9) | 23 (34.3) | 20 (29.9) | 6 (9.0) | 0 | 61.2% | Not applicable |
[i] [Capital-letters (‘H’ and ‘N’) indicate H = main hospital physicians and N = non-main hospital physicians). Lower-case letters (‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ and ‘d’) and the digit (‘1’) abbreviate individual questions as listed in Table 4].
Table 4
Summary and Legend of Questions for Radiologists (R), radiologic technicians (T), referring physicians of the main hospital (H), and physicians of the non-main hospitals (N).
| Ra/Ta/Ha/Na | Overall, how satisfied have you been with decentralized/modality-based radiology reporting (before system change)? |
| Rb/Tb/Hb/Nb | Overall, how satisfied have you been with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (after system change)? |
| Rc/Hc/Nc | How did you perceive the quality of radiology reports with decentralized/modality-based radiology reporting (before system change)? |
| Rd/Hd/Nd | How did you perceive the quality of radiology reports with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (after system change)? |
| R1/T1 | How would you rate your subjective productivity/efficiency since changing from decentralized/modality-based to centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (comparison between both evaluated systems of radiological reporting)? |
| R2 | How did you perceive the quality of radiology reports since changing from decentralized/modality-based to centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (comparison between both evaluated systems of radiological reporting)? |
| R3 | How professionally confident are you in your assigned subspecialization since changing from decentralized/modality-based to centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (comparison between both evaluated systems of radiological reporting)? |
| Tc | How would you rate the availability of residents (Radiology) with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (before system change)? |
| Td | How would you rate the availability of residents (Radiology) with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (after system change)? |
| Te | How would you rate the availability of senior radiologists with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (before system change)? |
| Tf | How would you rate the availability of senior radiologists with centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (after system change)? |
| H1/N1 | How would you rate the radiology turnaround time since changing from decentralized/modality-based to centralized/subspecialized radiology reporting (comparison between both evaluated systems of radiological reporting)? |
[i] [Capital-letters (‘R’, ‘T’, ‘H’ and ‘N’) indicate R = radiologists, T = radiologic technicians, H = main hospital clinicians and N = non-main hospital clinicians, lower-case letters (‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’ and ‘f’) and the digits (‘1’, ‘2’ and ‘3’) abbreviate the individual questions as listed above].