Diagnostic radiology and its future: what do clinicians need and think?


Journal

European radiology
ISSN: 1432-1084
Titre abrégé: Eur Radiol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9114774

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 24 12 2022
accepted: 27 04 2023
revised: 24 03 2023
medline: 27 11 2023
pubmed: 12 7 2023
entrez: 12 7 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

To investigate the view of clinicians on diagnostic radiology and its future. Corresponding authors who published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet between 2010 and 2022 were asked to participate in a survey about diagnostic radiology and its future. The 331 participating clinicians gave a median score of 9 on a 0-10 point scale to the value of medical imaging in improving patient-relevant outcomes. 40.6%, 15.1%, 18.9%, and 9.5% of clinicians indicated to interpret more than half of radiography, ultrasonography, CT, and MRI examinations completely by themselves, without consulting a radiologist or reading the radiology report. Two hundred eighty-nine clinicians (87.3%) expected an increase in medical imaging utilization in the coming 10 years, whereas 9 clinicians (2.7%) expected a decrease. The need for diagnostic radiologists in the coming 10 years was expected to increase by 162 clinicians (48.9%), to remain stable by 85 clinicians (25.7%), and to decrease by 47 clinicians (14.2%). Two hundred clinicians (60.4%) expected that artificial intelligence (AI) will not make diagnostic radiologists redundant in the coming 10 years, whereas 54 clinicians (16.3%) thought the opposite. Clinicians who published in the New England Journal of Medicine or the Lancet attribute high value to medical imaging. They generally need radiologists for cross-sectional imaging interpretation, but for a considerable proportion of radiographs, their service is not required. Most expect medical imaging utilization and the need for diagnostic radiologists to increase in the foreseeable future, and do not expect AI to make radiologists redundant. The views of clinicians on radiology and its future may be used to determine how radiology should be practiced and be further developed. • Clinicians generally regard medical imaging as high-value care and expect to use more medical imaging in the future. • Clinicians mainly need radiologists for cross-sectional imaging interpretation while they interpret a substantial proportion of radiographs completely by themselves. • The majority of clinicians expects that the need for diagnostic radiologists will not decrease (half of them even expect that we need more) and does not believe that AI will replace radiologists.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37436504
doi: 10.1007/s00330-023-09897-2
pii: 10.1007/s00330-023-09897-2
pmc: PMC10667510
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

9401-9410

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Thomas C Kwee (TC)

Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands. thomaskwee@gmail.com.

Maan T Almaghrabi (MT)

Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Robert M Kwee (RM)

Department of Radiology, Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen/Sittard/Geleen, The Netherlands.

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