Mar 5, 2020

Sources of Error in Interventional Radiology: How, Why, and When

Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
Sebastian Mafeld, George Oreopoulos, E L S Musing, Tze Chan, Arash Jaberi, Dheeraj Rajan
This article aims to provide an overview of the sources for error in interventional radiology (IR). Being both a procedure and an imaging-based specialty, IR has unique considerations as to how error can occur. However, compared to the surgical and medical literature, data on error in IR are lacking. The available IR literature is reviewed but supplemented with lessons from other specialties and the World Health Organization. Individual risks such as cognitive bias as well as system-level...