The Development of a Standard Set of Chest Radiographs to Test a Radiologist??s Expertise
- 29 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Investigative Radiology
- Vol. 19 (2) , 152-156
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004424-198403000-00013
Abstract
Six test sets of normal and abnormal chest radiographs were presented to 8 radiologists for their interpretation. Based upon their responses to these tests, it was determined that some radiologists consistently overread, some underread and others do neither. From an analysis of the radiologist''s responses, cases from the 2 best test sets could be combined to produce a standard test set of 50-60 chest radiographs representing a variety of pulmonary diseases. This test then could measure a radiologist''s proficiency at interpretating the normal and abnormal chest, and those who consistently differ with their colleagues would be so informed.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: