Monitoring and Reducing Errors in Veterinary Radiology

Veterinary radiology faces numerous challenges, particularly when it comes to perception and cognition errors. These errors, which can be classified as either perception errors (changes that are not seen or are seen and ignored) or cognition errors (misjudgments, mistakes, or incorrect conclusions often caused by the brain's simplification of information processing), can lead to false negative reports and incorrect clinical reasoning.

These clinical errors are often multifactorial, stemming from human, technical, or organizational issues. Despite these challenges, each error presents a learning opportunity, and strategies to reduce these errors are continually being explored and implemented.

The primary aim of this Research Topic is to gather and analyze information on systematic approaches that have proven effective in monitoring, evaluating, and reducing errors in veterinary radiology. This includes strategies that have been shown to improve self-criticism or analytical thinking, as well as measures to reduce perception errors, such as knowledge of relevant clinical history, the four-eyes principle, selective image review, and fostering an error culture, such as institutionalized morbidity or mortality rounds.

The scope of this Research Topic is focused on strategies and approaches that have demonstrated a positive impact on reducing errors in veterinary radiology. We welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Monitoring of image quality
• The four-eyes principle
• Selective image review
• Fostering an error culture
• Tasks to improve self-criticism
• Analytical reasoning
• The use of artificial intelligence

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: error, cognitive error, perception error, veterinary radiology, veterinary imaging

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