A Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Impact of 939 Chest Radiographs Using the Medical Records

Table 1

Concordance between radiographic outcome and clinician’s expectations in 939 chest radiographs, grouped according to the chest radiography findings. Normal studies had a higher degree of expected outcome than pathologic studies.

Result	Highly expected	Moderately expected	Unexpected	Total
Normal	291 (80.4%)	64 (17.7%)	7 (1.9%)	362 (100.0%)
Incidental	64 (83.1%)	8 (10.4%)	5 (6.5%)	77 (100.0%)
Pathologic	317 (63.4%)	86 (17.2%)	97 (19.4%)	500 (100.0%)
Total	672 (71.6%)	158 (16.8%)	109 (11.6%)	939 (100.0%)