Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
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Bed chest X-rays carried out in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are an important means of patient monitoring. To get the starting points for standardization of the documentation of X-ray findings, we examined course and contents of the daily X-ray conference in an ICU. We video-taped the conferences and registered its vocabulary. ⋯ Sorting and viewing the X-rays took 60 s. Main disruptions were related to non-availability of X-rays and clinical patient data. Clinical information reported during the discussion is rarely mentioned in the dictated findings.