The Art of Actionable Reporting: Practical Session

AR h10 - How to improve your head and neck cancer staging reports in practice

March 5, 15:00 - 16:00 CET

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Please note that we will be using equipment from specific vendors during the workshop sessions; however, a variety of alternative options from other vendors are also available.

This session is exclusively offered to onsite attendees and will not be broadcast live or available on demand.

Writing a radiological report is central to our work as radiologists, but we receive relatively little training on how to report scans of patients with head and neck cancer, especially how to approach complex cases for staging and post-treatment follow-up. While reporting styles vary amongst head and neck radiologists, this workshop will provide one approach that aims to offer a framework to help less experienced radiologists embarking on this often-daunting task. This workshop will reinforce concepts covered in the theoretical session: How to improve head and neck cancer staging reports.
3 min
Introduction
Ho Sang Leung, Hong Kong / Hong Kong SAR China
7 min
Basic principles
Ann Dorothy King, Hong Kong / China
  1. To learn how to structure head and neck cancer reports so that findings are easily extractable and clinically relevant.
  2. To appreciate the importance of concise and clear language in improving communication and decision-making.
  3. To understand how to tailor reports to specific head and neck cancer types, ensuring completeness without omissions.
  4. To learn techniques for addressing uncertainty in imaging findings while minimising ambiguity and avoiding errors.
50 min
Cases review, interactive discussion and critiquing of reports
Ho Sang Leung, Hong Kong / Hong Kong SAR China
Ann Dorothy King, Hong Kong / China
  1. To critique reports and suggest ways of improving them.
  2. To show how to make reports brief yet clinically pertinent.