Rationale and Objectives In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the impact of environmental factors such as ambient light on radiologist performance. One commonly encountered distr...

This article examines certain critical aspects relating to the clinical competency of professionalism. A discussion is presented which is centered on an analysis of two fictional scenarios explored...

In response to the significant advances in thoracic imaging over the past decade, authors Jannette Colins and Eric J. Stern have undertaken the task of updating their extremely successful first edi...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the potential benefits, harms, and cost-effectiveness of screening for asymptomatic, unruptured intracranial aneurysms in family members of patients with aneur...

As this is being written in December, there is every indication that health care will be more of a political issue in the 2008 elections than it has been since 1992. This is too early for anything ...

Rationale and Objectives Effective communication is essential for high quality care, yet little is known about radiologists’ communication with patients, what constitutes “best communication pract...

Rationale and Objectives Radiologic image details are best discriminated at luminance levels to which the eye is adapted. Recommendations that ambient light conditions are matched to overall monit...

Rationale and Objectives Despite the progress made in diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular diseases remain the main cause of death worldwide. Materials and Methods Multidetector row computed ...

The last time I visited my home town, I went for a walk through the neighborhood where I grew up. It was a depressing exercise. Most of the houses are nearly 100 years old. Most of them look like i...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of e-mail communication to reduce the utilization of computed tomography for pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) in young patients (aged...