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    A review of the impact of radiographers’ role in radiographic interpretation
    (NUST, 2012-11) Tityiwe, Josephine .S.; Crofts, Gillian
    The study sought to establish the impact of role extension by radiographers into interpreting plain x-ray images. The main objectives are of the study were to review evidence on radiographers role development in radiographic reporting and to synthesise the evidence on the impact of radiographer reporting on Radiology services. The justification of this study was based on the chronic shortage of radiologists in hospitals and the high workloads faced by the available few, making it necessary for radiographers to develop their skills this way to fill in the gap. The evidence from this study will be used as a trustworthy base to assess the feasibility of establishing radiographers’ role development in this pathway in Zimbabwe. A research question was used to extract studies from electronic databases. A standardised appraisal of study quality was made and the studies of acceptable quality were systematically analysed. A multiple search method was done to extract studies from Medline Ovid, Psycinfo, Allied Complementary Medicine and CINAHL databases from 1950-2008. Full text for some of the studies was extracted from Science Direct, Scopus and PubMed electronic sources. Keywords like, “radiographers, plain x-ray trauma films, image interpretation and role extension,” were used to select 177 studies of which 20 were adequately answered. The results for this study were analysed under 3 subheadings which were formulated around the main objectives of the study were used to quantify similar studies together to make the analysis easier. The subheadings for analysis of the results were thus: 1) Radiographers’ competence in reporting plain x-ray trauma films, 2) Impact of radiographers’ role in reporting plain x-ray trauma films on future patient management by clinicians and 3) Radiographers’ role development in plain x-ray images interpretation.