By Dr AW Olthof and Dr PMA van Ooijen
Whether the underlying motivation is simply helping the patient, making intellectually satisfying and sophisticated reports, or just making money, a radiology
report that adds value to the overall process is indispensable. Peer review is a tool that can significantly help to improve the quality of radiology reporting.
This article describes the basic rationale behind peer review and discusses the development and implementation of a peer review function integrated in a
PACS system.