Introduction: Reporting radiography is a diagnostical practice of examing x-ray images in which the radiographer gives the first opinion (marks a suspicious place on the image) about a possible pathological change which contributes to a faster and more effective final report and diagnosis given by the doctor. Purpose: The purpose of diploma work was to present the historical background and development of reporting radiography and to determine with what kind of percentage of recognition did students of the 3rd year of Radiologic technology evaluated normal and abnormal radiograms. Methods: In the theoretical part, with the help of foreign professional articles and research conducted in the field of reporting radiography, we presented the historical background and role of reporting radiography in countries where reporting radiography is used as part of established practice. In the empirical part, we used a survey questionnaire. The survey questionnaire was completed by 40 third-year students of radiologic technology at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Ljubljana. Results: After the analysis, we concluded that the student recognized pathological change on radiograms correctly in 59 % of radiograms of appendicular skeleton that had pathological change. On the radiograms that did not include pathology they correctly recognized that radiograms did not contain any pathological chances in 52,8 %. This means that the students correctly reported x-ray images in 55,9 % Discussion and conclusion: This led us to the conclusion that reporting radiography is an important part of the clinical practice performed in the hospital that contributes enhancement of clinical work. Marking radiograms with red dots and adding reporting in terms of comments helps doctors with their image report and contributed to the improvement of the final inaccuracy of final reports on X-ray images made by Radiologists and leads to improvement of taking X-ray images by Radiographers.
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