Reject analysis package

Finding systematic errors

Sectra Reject Analysis Package helps you find systematic errors in the image-acquisition process. By unveiling such errors, you are able to reduce the number of erroneous images in your operations, improve quality of care and reduce operational costs.

Automatic statistical reports for efficient analysis

Reasons for discarding images and who discarded them can be studied both on individual images and on an aggregated level through automatic statistical reports. This helps you ensure that your modalities are adequately maintained by indicating whether certain modalities consistently generate images that are rejected for the same reasons. It also helps you ensure that users are given the support and training they require by indicating whether users repeatedly reject images for the same reasons.

Enhancing the quality of care

Having to take additional images could result in substantial costs, particularly if it means rescheduling the patient. Corrected systematic errors entail fewer retakes, thus lowering operational costs for radiology. Ultimately, however, fewer retakes result in improved patient care. Images that need to be retaken could lead to the patient having to pay an extra visit to the hospital. This reduces the perceived quality of care and could also increase time from request to report, thus potentially having severe healthcare factor.

Features and benefits

  • Rejected series are kept in a file that is hidden from the normal user but is available to authorized users for future reference or analysis. Authorized users can select and display rejected images and the rejection can be confirmed, reject reasons can be changed or the series can be un-rejected altogether.
  • In rejecting an image, the user is presented with a list of selectable reject reasons. For increased ease-of-use, this can be configured per modality in terms of what reasons to display. By so doing, only relevant reject reasons are displayed for every specific image.
  • Examinations containing rejected images show up in the reject analysis worklist for manual analysis. However, to allow efficient analysis of rejected images, Sectra Reject Analysis Package automatically compiles statistical reports of rejected series. Such reports help answer questions including “How many series created at station X were rejected due to over-exposure?” or “How large a percentage of our rejected series was rejected due to motion blur?”

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