DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i04.031

Pages: 1528-1532

Background: Diagnostic radiography has multiple applications across the full spectrum of health care. Radiographic technologist use state-of-the-art equipment to produce high-quality images. The current manuscript aimed to test the ability of radiographer to interpret images they produced. Materials and Methods: 100 cases produced by various imaging modalities were collected from two main hospital in Taif city, King Abdul Aziz specialist hospital and King Fiasal hospital, 70 and 30 respectively. Radiographers who have more than five years’ experience in radiography in radiography job allowed to initiate preliminary reports, then these reports compared to final reports by expertise radiologists. In addition to that, all images cases were followed by researchers to obtained accuracy, specificity and sensitivity for each modality. Results: the highest frequency obtained from conventional x-ray imaging which has lowest specificity (66.6%) and highest sensitivity compared to other modalities. The highest percentage of correct diagnosis was associated with ultrasound imaging that has both high sensitivity and specificity; where computed tomography (CT) has the lowest percentage of correct diagnosis (86.6%), while most reports from CT was laying with final reports lines. Conclusion and recommendations: Highest percentage of correct diagnosis obtained for most modality. Study limitation was on the limited number of sample, In the future we recommend to adopt the idea of research by the associations working in the field of radiology by expanding samples and recommend the academic institutions to increase courses that enable the student's radiographers to interpret images.