Sammer Marla,  Hayatghaibi Shireen,  Nguyen Haithuy,  Sher Andrew

Final Pr. ID: Paper #: 170

In our pediatric radiology department, radiographs (XR) are the shared responsibility of body radiologists, expected to be read in addition to daily modality-based or site-specific assignments. Due to concerns that the increasing XR volume was unevenly shared amongst colleagues, a software intervention was developed to improve weekday 7am-5pm workload balance by auto-distributing exams at 10-minute intervals during peak hours to rotation worklists within PACS; a cap of 20 distributed exams to each target worklist was set. Metrics to evaluate the intervention’s effectiveness were assessed. Additionally, as there was concern that assigning exams may result in slower turnaround times (TATs) and increased errors, TATs and error rates were evaluated. Read More

Authors:  Sammer Marla , Hayatghaibi Shireen , Nguyen Haithuy , Sher Andrew

Keywords:  turnaround time, informatics, radiographs