Methods and systems for analysis of requests for radiological imaging examinations

摘要

Methods for analysis of radiologic imaging orders including using a processor, executing instructions to perform the steps of receiving a query for analysis of radiologic imaging orders of a group of patients who underwent radiologic imaging exams resulting in radiologic exam reports, wherein the radiologic imaging exam orders were used to order the radiologic imaging exams, identifying reason for exam codes for the radiologic imaging orders, identifying exam report diagnosis codes for the radiologic exam reports, calculating a value for a correlation between the reason for exam codes and the exam report diagnosis codes, and comparing the calculated value to a standard.