Editorial March 2015

摘要

This issue of Journal of Radiology Nursing (JRN) is only the second time the articles in the journal have been focused on a denned topic, in this instance, legal topics of interest to the radiology nurse. I hope the audience of the journal finds this information useful for everyday practice. As I was putting together the March issue table of contents in early November, I saw a program note from the Radiological Society of North America November meeting. Included in the program was a session entitled "Mock Jury Trial." In September, I had read an article entitled "Too many abandon the 'second victims' of medical errors (Grissinger, 2014); this article discusses the same topic as the article in this issue entitled "Living through litigation: Malpractice stress syndrome." The article in this issue entitled "The most frequent and costly triggers of litigation for nurses in radiology settings" reminds me of "The chest radiograph: low reward, high risk, extreme uncertainty" (or "A radiologist considers the disconnect between evidence-based medicine and the courtroom") (Jha, 2014, p. 10), which speaks to a missed chest x-ray diagnosis and discusses the concept of lead-time bias, missing a finding versus calling out false alarms.