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Clinical Decision Support at the Radiologist Point of Care

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The field of radiology is broad: a single imaging examination can present significant findings that span multiple body systems. For example, an abdominal computed tomography (CT) might show infectious disease of the hepatobiliary system, traumatic injury to the musculoskeletal system, or an obstructive malignancy of the genitourinary tract. In addition to these acute findings, it is not uncommon for a radiologist interpreting an abdominal CT to encounter incidental findings, such as pulmonary nodules, adrenal nodules, renal masses, hepatic hypodensities, pancreatic cystic lesions, or adnexal cysts, among others. This means that radiologist must possess—or have readily available—considerable knowledge of these entities and their management crossing multiple medical specialties to provide accurate and clinically meaningful interpretations.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Tarik K. Alkasab M.D., Ph.D., Bernardo C. Bizzo M.D. & H. Benjamin Harvey M.D., J.D.

  2. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Tarik K. Alkasab M.D., Ph.D., Bernardo C. Bizzo M.D. & H. Benjamin Harvey M.D., J.D.

  3. Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    H. Benjamin Harvey M.D., J.D.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Alkasab, T.K., Bizzo, B.C., Benjamin Harvey, H. (2018). Clinical Decision Support at the Radiologist Point of Care. In: Donoso-Bach, L., Boland, G. (eds) Quality and Safety in Imaging. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2017_160

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