The Radiology Report: A Guide to Thoughtful Communication for Radiologists and Other Medical Professionals

by Curtis P. Langlotz

An essential resource for medical imaging professionals, this book provides everything you need to create exceptional radiology reports. In an accessible and informal style, one of the foremost experts on radiology reporting gives you practical tips for precise image interpretation and clear communication. This book should be required reading for radiologists in training, and is destined to become an indispensable part of every radiologist’s library. Topics
•The virtues of “normal”
•How to say “I don’t know”
•Building a rhetorical foundation
•Spatial relationships
•Making recommendations
•Suggesting clinical correlation
•The hedge
•Severity straddling
•Size matters
•Eponyms in radiology
•A summary of reporting best practices
•How speech recognition works
•Optimizing your speech recognition
•Templates and macros
•The history of radiology reporting
•Structured reporting case study
•Structured what you can do today
•Standard terminology for the radiology report
•How to think about imaging information
•Logic, probability, and the radiology report
•Decision making in radiology
•The radiology report in 2025

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2015

Reviews

[Rex Libris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Langlotz discusses the importance of radiology reports, specifically radiology reports. Nevertheless, many of the lesson are apt for all sorts of reporting.

Langlotz is leading the charge for structured reporting and the use of controlled vocabulary, and in this book he gives many reasons why these concepts are important and necessary.

He tries to give prognostication at the end of the book, but I am not sure of his conclusions. Many predictions paint a world where patient and doctor have less and less personal contact. But I cannot see that happening from both the wants of patients and doctors. An entirely automated doctor-patient relationship will not help either doctor or patient thrive.

[Jim Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well done - nice insights from the explanation of how dictation software works. The section on the future is also excellent. Wished there was more about the necessity of closed loop communication and how a series of studies generate patterns that lead to testable hypotheses.