Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

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Radiologists in British Columbia plead for 'urgent action' as imaging backlogs climb to new heights

The British Columbia Radiological Society pleaded with the province to provide resources necessary for accommodating “hundreds of thousands of patients” queued in a wait list. 

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Experts call for guidelines limiting interpretations during busy shifts, citing a reduction in error rates

When exam volumes increase, so too does the risk of diagnostic errors in interpretations, many of which can be clinically significant.

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Overworked and inadequately trained, many x-ray managers are in 'an untenable position'

New survey data completed by 200 respondents reveal that 45% of x-ray managers have never received proper training on management practices from their organizations.

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Addressing radiology's reputation of 'incivility': Experts offer 3 tips for leadership

Prior studies have indicated that nearly 60% of radiology faculty have reported incivility as an issue in the workplace.

Improving the diagnostic value of portable imaging: Experts propose 3 interventions

After experts from one institution evaluated 500 portable chest x-rays completed during the summer of 2021, it was revealed that 46.2% of the images obtained were problematic, requiring the imaging to be repeated. 

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Artificial intelligence in radiology: Friend, not foe, say experts concerned about student perceptions of AI

In an effort to perhaps dissuade skepticism among medical students who are on the fence about the future of radiologists, experts in the field recently offered a detailed overview of the use of AI in imaging.

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Specially trained radiographers spot breast cancer at rates comparable to radiologists

Radiographers trained to recognize certain findings on screening mammograms could help address the worldwide shortage of radiologists. 

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Outsourcing reporting during out-of-hours shifts benefits staff, but is it sustainable?

Requests for urgent CT reads during the evening, overnight and on the weekends have increased more than 10-fold, causing a negative ripple effect throughout the radiology workforce, especially among trainees. 

Around the web

The newly approved PET radiotracer is expected to improve patient care significantly. “We have been able to reach the pinnacle of myocardial perfusion imaging with flurpiridaz," one expert said.

GE HealthCare's flurpiridaz, the PET radiotracer that recently received FDA approval, offers several key benefits over SPECT. Jamshid Maddahi, MD, discussed the details in an exclusive interview. 

Ultrafast MCE could go on to become a go-to treatment option for obstructive coronary artery disease, according to the authors of a new first-in-human clinical study.

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