​Pediatric chest radiographs: common and less common errors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

​Pediatric chest radiographs: common and less common errors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published August 2016

​Pediatric chest radiographs: common and less common errors.

Menashe SJ, Iyer RS, Parisi MT, Otto RK, Stanescu AL. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2016 Aug 4; [Epub ahead of print].

This commentary reviews nine cases involving interpretation errors associated with chest radiographs of children to illustrate common mistakes that can occur in pediatric imaging. Each case concludes with a clinical teaching point for practice improvement.

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