Items tagged “error”

Satisfaction of search (SOS) error is a common error in diagnostic radiology. It occurs when the reporting radiologist fails to continue to search for subsequent abnormalities after identifying an initial one. This initial detection of an abnormality satisfies the "search for meaning" and the re...

Omission​ errors in diagnostic radiology are important to comprehend. The nature in which medical imaging interpretation errors occur can be broken into three types. Search errors  Search errors involve the reader allocating no time on the location of a lesion/abnormality. Perceptual errors  ...