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with interest the study by Dr Patel and colleagues published in the November 2020 issue of Radiology (1). This is an interesting study designed to assess the difference in radiology fellow error rates between day and night reporting. It is a common belief that error rates are higher at night but this is notoriously difficult to measure and the authors make a good effort.However, I am left with questions that may render the results unreliable:1. Was there a difference in the difficulty of the case mix between the daytime and nighttime cases? The authors describe in the methods that these cases were inpatient and emergency department cases. In my practice in the United Kingdom, patients imaged overnight are often sicker, requiring an urgent scan that arguably may be more difficult to interpret. This could account for some of the difference in error rate. No assessment of case mix difficulty is provided in the paper.2. Were the reviewing attending radiologists blinded with respect to the time of the study? If not there is definite potential for bias here, which may affect the reliability of the results.3. Is there anything that could account for the fact that some fellows performed be

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Author

David Little

Publisher

The Radiological Society of North America; Radiological Society of North America; Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) (ISSN 0033-8419)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)