Clinicians opinion on errors in ultrasound reports in South Eastern Nigeria

ABSTRACT

This study investigated clinicians opinion on common errors in ultrasound reports in South Eastern Nigerian. 238 clinicians from speicialities of internal medicine, surgery, general practice and obstetric/gynaecology selected through stratified random sampling were invloved in ths survey. A questionnaire with four response options ranging from 'very often' to 'never' were used to obtain respondents opinion on the frequency of their observation of common errors in ultrasound reports. The commonest errors identified by respondents were conflicting report (3.73 + 0.62) and missed diagnosis (3.66 + 0.69). On a 4 point scale clinicians indicated that irrespective of the common errors, the ultrasound report was still helpful. The overall mean rating of the clinicians on the extent of common errors in ultrasound report is 2.77 + 0.29. The response indicates that ultrasound reports in the locality are associated with significant errors