COMMUNICATION OF RADIOLOGY REPORT

Abstract

Commentary: Traditionally radiologists have considered themselves to be consultants of consultants because they performed radiologic examination only on the request of a referring physician and send the report to same physician regardless the follow-up of report either it was acknowledged by the referring physician or patient seek appropriate treatment if needed on the basis of radiologic findings. With the advent of interventional radiology and use of many imaging techniques for screening of disease in normal population leads to increased radiologist–patient interaction due to self referral by the patients and usually patients would like to know the results directly by radiologists, regardless of diagnosis. Moreover development of written hard copy print of radiology test results may take hours to days; this may delay in communication of radiologic test report either to patient or to referring physician.