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

Table 3

Alteration or influence on treatment by 939 chest radiography examinations, grouped according to the referring physicians’ anticipation of the chest radiography outcome. Unexpected chest radiography results influenced treatment to a higher degree than moderately or highly expected results.

	Major	Moderate	Minor	No influence	Total
Highly expected	302 (44.9%)	171 (25.4%)	140 (20.8%)	59 (8.8%)	672 (100.0%)
Moderately expected	106 (67.1%)	30 (19.0%)	17 (10.8%)	5 (3.2%)	158 (100.0%)
Unexpected	83 (76.1%)	15 (13.8%)	9 (8.3%)	2 (1.8%)	109 (100.0%)
Total	491 (52.3%)	216 (23.0%)	166 (17.7%)	66 (7.0%)	939 (100.0%)