Purpose
This report provides summary statistics for the data submitted to the DIR Digital Radiography (DR) module. An exam search dashboard is available and can help you verify if the data submitted to the DIR matches what your facility has transmitted. You can also identify procedures that are not mapped and hence do not appear in the DIR-DR reports.
How to Access
To access the report, log in to the NRDR Portal, select the DIR registry, and click the DR Summary of Data Submitted link under the Interactive Reports submenu.
Navigating the Report
The report is comprised of five dashboards, or tabs, with the left-most dashboard being the About This Report which provides insight into the report's measures and overall filter use. To populate one of the interactive dashboards with your site's data, select a Corporate Account and one or more Facilities within the Corporate Account.
Hover over the info icon (blue circle in the upper left corner) to obtain details about maximizing the dashboard's analysis features. Many dashboards have a Help feature next to the info icon that provides instructions about the dashboard's interactive features, e.g., how to drill down to obtain more detailed performance data. The Read about this report link takes you to this Knowledge Base Article and you can share your comments and suggestions about the report via the Feedback link.
The Report Features
The Summary of Data Submitted report includes interactive filters for Corporate Account, Facility, Exam Date Range, Station Name, and three types of procedure descriptions (ACR Common Procedure Name, Study Description, and Requested Procedure Description). To populate the report with your site's data, select a Corporate Account and one or more Facilities within the Corporate Account. By default, the From and To date filters display data for the current month, but you may set it to any timeframe. The Station Name, Common Procedure, Study Description, and the Requested Procedure filters default to all. The Station Name filter allows you to select specific stations of interest. The Common Procedure filter allows you to select exams by specific ACR Common ID.
The Grand Total exam count in the upper left corner of the report is shown in orange for facilities that have not submitted data within the last ten days so that disruptions in data transmission can be quickly addressed.
Click an ACR Common ID, Requested Procedure Name (or Study Description) in the upper bar chart to filter the Number of Exams by Study Date histogram chart. By default, the histogram chart displays the number of exams by day. Hovering along the top of the y-axis reveals collapse icons [-] next to the month, quarter, and year. Click on an icon to change the level of detail. In the example below, the mouse has highlighted the collapse icon at the month level.
The level of detail at the bottom of the chart changes to month. An expand icon is available next to month, to drill down to show data by day, and collapse icons at the top will raise the level of detail to show volume by quarter or year.
Exam Search
The Exam Search report summarizes the number of studies, station names, and facilities matching the filter criteria, with details for each study listed in the table. The filters work the same as described in the above section.
To export data, click anywhere on the table, click the Download icon in the bottom right corner, and select Crosstab to create a .CSV file of the entire table.
Unmapped Procedures
The Unmapped Procedures dashboard provides a quick view of the procedures not mapped for one or more facilities in a Corporate Account listed in descending order. The example below shows that 10% of the DR procedures are not mapped to an ACR Common term and, therefore, will not appear in DIR DR reports.
Unclassified Exams
The Unclassified Exams report shows exams from your facility that have unfilled dose indices and do not meet logic-specific criteria to be labeled as a complete DR or Fluoro exam. Users can view this report for quality assurance, but these exams cannot be mapped or included in registry comparisons.
Exam Logic for Determining Unclassified Exams
Exam enters registry and is first classified for fluoroscopy
Elements contained in the RDSR that determine exam classification can be referenced here.
IF at least one of the following is true, the exam will be classified as fluoroscopy
At least one cumulative fluoroscopy dose index is > 0 (Total Fluoroscopy Time, Total Fluoroscopy Dose Reference Point, or Total Fluoroscopy Dose Area Product)
One Irradiation Event where the Fluoroscopy Mode is not equal to null
One Irradiation Event Type contains string ‘Fluor’
If not classified as Fluoroscopy, proceeds to DR logic
DR Classification Criteria
IF RDSR contains at least one irradiation event with exposure index > 0
If not classified as DR or fluoroscopy, exam is unclassified.
Exams that do not meet the data criteria for either fluoroscopy or DR are considered “unclassified”. They can only be viewed in the Unclassified Exams dashboard found in the Summary of Data Submitted report.
