Feedback in radiology: essential tool for improving user experience and providing value-based care
Rockall, Andrea, Visser, Jacob J., Garcia-Villar, Cristina, Lev-Cohain, Naama, Omoumi, Patrick, Revel, Marie-Pierre, Strudwick, Ruth, Birch, Judy, Brkljačić, Boris and Robinson, Philip (2025) Feedback in radiology: essential tool for improving user experience and providing value-based care. Insights into Imaging, 16 (132). ISSN 1869-4101
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Abstract
Measuring the value that radiology brings to patient care can be challenging. A positive patient experience is consistently associated with patient safety, clinical effectiveness, and outcome measures and is therefore a tool for measuring value-based care. Monitoring the experience of users of radiology services is an indispensable component of quality improvement programmes for radiology departments. The integration of comprehensive feedback mechanisms brings numerous benefits, including enhanced care, strengthened trust, and greater engagement with our stakeholders and service users. Feedback should be collected from a variety of stakeholders through a 360-degree approach, combining both systematically performed structured methods, such as formal surveys, and unstructured methods, such as informal and opportunistic information gathering during multidisciplinary rounds. To maximise the impact of feedback, it should be frequent and diverse, ensuring that all perspectives are considered. Leaders in radiology must prioritise embedding a culture of feedback within their institutions, recognising its crucial role in continuous improvement. It is essential to ensure that our departments consistently provide value to our most important stakeholders—the patients—but also to our referrers and trainees. In this article, we consider methods for collecting feedback and provide some of the key findings from the literature. By fostering an environment that values and acts upon feedback, we can achieve significant advancements in patient care and overall service quality in radiology.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Value-based health care, feedback, patients, referrers, hospital management |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Health & Science > School of Allied Health Sciences |
Depositing User: | David Upson-Dale |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2025 09:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2025 09:03 |
URI: | https://oars.uos.ac.uk/id/eprint/4963 |