Patient-centered Radiology

Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Why Radiology?

Before technologic advances in imaging, such as PET/ MRI and molecular imaging–guided oncologic treatment, changed the practice of radiology, before antibiotics and vaccines provided widespread pharmacologic means to treat and prevent disease, before antiseptic technique markedly reduced surgical death rates, our ability to minister to patients and their families was to listen, comfort, and sup...

Text Simplification Using Consumer Health Vocabulary to Generate Patient-Centered Radiology Reporting: Translation and Evaluation

BACKGROUND Radiology reporting is a clinically oriented form of documentation that reflects critical information for patients about their health care processes. Realizing its importance, many medical institutions have started providing radiology reports in patient portals. The gain, however, can be limited because of medical language barriers, which require a way for customizing these reports f...

Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy

Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians’ medical practice. Transparency about conflicts matters for ensuring adequate informed consent, controlling healthcare expenditure, and encouraging physicians’ reflection on professionalism. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Open ...

Patient Centered Care Model

Patient-centered clinical trials.

We apply Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to incorporate patient preferences in the regulatory approval process for new therapies. By assigning weights to type I and type II errors based on patient preferences, the significance level (α) and power (1-β) of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) for a new therapy can be optimized to maximize the value to current and future patients and, consequently,...