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Table 4 Categories of patient injury types related to different modalities

From: Investigating errors in medical imaging: medical malpractice cases in Finland

Patient injury type

Radiography

Computer tomography, CT

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI

Ultrasound

Interventional radiologya

Mammography and screening mammography

Total

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

No major harm, no correlation to medical care

61

15.3

28

7

93

23.3

35

8.6

50

12.5

133

33.3

400

38

Unavoidable complication or always potential consequence

2

1.1

18

9.7

2

1.1

9

4.8

140

75.3

15

8.1

186

17.6

Pain, but no effect on treatment or prognosis

16

10.1

14

8.8

12

7.5

5

3.1

2

1.3

110

69.2

159

15.2

Degenerated prognosis or disease or delayed cancer treatment

3

10

1

3.3

3

10

3

10

0

0

20

66.7

30

2.8

Extra, unnecessary, delayed or inadequate treatment or intervention, deterioration of disease

32

28.6

17

15.2

23

20.5

9

8.0

3

2.7

28

25

112

10.6

Aches and pains

48

63.2

4

5.3

13

17.1

8

10.5

1

1.3

2

2.6

76

7.2

Complication, infection, recompiled infection

5

7.2

17

24.6

12

17.4

7

10.1

24

34.8

4

5.8

69

6.5

Death or decrease life expectancy

1

4.5

5

22.7

6

27.3

1

4.5

9

40.9

0

0

22

2.1

Total

168

15.9

104

9.9

164

15.6

77

7.3

229

21.7

312

29.6

1054

100

  1. aDiagnostic interventional and vascular radiology and fluoroscopy examinations