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Guy S Handelman1, Ailin C Rogers2, Zafir Babiker3
1Department of Radiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
Abstract:
The objectives of the study were to determine whether diagnostic accuracy and reliability by on-call teams is affected by communicating chest radiograph (CXR) images via instant messaging on smartphones in comparison to viewing on a workstation. 12 residents viewed 100 CXR images each with a 24% positive rate for significant or acute findings sent to their phones via a popular instant messaging application and reported their findings if any. After an interval of 42 days they viewed the original DICOM images on personal computers and again reported their findings. There were no statistically significant differences in accuracy, agreement, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value or negative predictive value between desktop workstation viewed images and images sent via the mobile application. Media messaging is a useful adjunct for quick second opinions on radiological images, without significant decay in diagnostic accuracy. If technical, ethical and legal issues are addressed, it could be incorporated into practice as a useful adjunct.
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