Our vision is to ensure that patients receive immediate and precise, expert-level care in MSK imaging, 24/7, regardless of time, infrastructure, or staffing constraints.
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Ben Madden Lead Reporting Radiographer Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust
In one study, approximately half of all patients reported that waiting for radiology test results negatively affected their state of mind.
Woolen S, Kazerooni EA, Wall A, Parent K, Cahalan S, Alameddine M, Davenport MS. Waiting for Radiology Test Results: Patient Expectations and Emotional Disutility. J Am Coll Radiol. 2018 Feb;15(2):274-281. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.09.017. Epub 2017 Nov 10. PMID: 29132998.
Financial burdens for patients and hospitals
Prolonging a patient’s ED wait time by just one hour increases the cost of care for the most acute patients by an average of 30%.
Woodworth L, Holmes James F. Holmes. Just a Minute: The Effect of Emergency Department Wait Time on the Cost of Care. Economic Inquiry. 2020 April;58(2):698-716. doi: 10.1111/ecin.12849. Epub 2019 Nov 05.
Decreased patient satisfaction
An internal review at an Academic Medical Center found that radiology-related delays accounted for over 20% of complaints.
Gloria Salazar, Keith Quencer, Shima Aran, Hani Abujudeh, Patient Satisfaction in Radiology: Qualitative Analysis of Written Complaints Generated Over a 10-Year Period in an Academic Medical Center, Journal of the American College of Radiology, Volume 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 513-517, ISSN 1546-1440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2013.03.013.