RADPEER™ Qualifies as a PQI Project for the ABR Maintenance of Certification Program
On May 4, 2009, The American Board of Radiology qualified RADPEER™ as a PQI project to fulfill Part IV, Assessment of Performance in Practice for Maintenance of Certification for diagnostic radiologists.
Accuracy of imaging interpretation is one of the ABR’s five PQI projects for Diagnostic Radiology. Other projects include:
- Patient safety
- Report turnaround time
- Practice guidelines and technical standards
- Referring physician surveys
RADPEER™ provides a simple measurement tool for assessing accuracy of interpretation and certainly fulfills the ABR’s elements of a PQI project. RADPEER™ is based on peer review being performed as part of a radiologist’s routine interpretation of images. When an exam is being read and there are prior images of the same area of interest, the interpreting physician will typically form an opinion of the previous interpretation while interpreting the new study. The radiologist then scores this previous interpretation on a scale of 1 to 4.
To learn more about the ABR’s Maintenance of Certification program, visit the ABR Web site at www.theabr.org.
If your group participates in RADPEER™, you can apply for RADPEER™ as a PQI project by completing a separate application and submitting it to the ACR. To learn more about the ACR’s RADPEER™ program, or to apply for RADPEER™, visit the Web site at http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/quality_safety/radpeer.aspx.
