Click the Worklist tab.
Click the Status column value for the study to be edited.
Click the Edit button.
Enter changes to the report.
Click the Save or Cancel button.
To edit a report, you must have report editing privileges. For such users, the Edit button at the top right of the report page is enabled. Click the Edit button to advance to the report editing page.
When you open a report for editing, you have locked that study for writing. Until you close the report by clicking the Save or Cancel button, no other user is able to edit the report or open the study in the viewer. Clicking on the browser back button does not release the study.
The report editor is a customizable XML web page. Some of the feature described here may appear different on your system or may not exist at all. Some servers may be configured to use the Viewer’s report panel for editing the report rather than a web page. The Viewer's report panel uses the same XML web page, and includes some tools the browser report editor does not support, including spell checking, canned reports and foot pedal controls. If using the viewer’s report panel for editing, refer to the eRAD PACS Viewer Manual for information.
In the report edit window, you can change the radiologist, date of record, and report text. Click on the listen button to play back a dictated report. To enter report text, type or paste it into the observation or impression field. The size of the text field grows to accommodate the text. Word count fields update automatically as you type. Clear the Normal checkbox to highlight this study on the worklist.
Some of the text fields support rich text. Those that do display a rich text toolbar immediately above it. The available controls are the text font type and size, bold, italic, underline, strike-through, superscript, subscript, text alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, indentation, color, separator and tables. To insert a table into the report, click the Insert Table button, enter the rows and columns in the popup window, and click OK.
If addendums exist, they are available by selecting the appropriate tab.
If a study is in final state, regular users can add an addendum to amend the report. The addendum section appears at the bottom of the edit report page or on a separate tab. Follow the same procedure above for entering addendum text.
After completing changes to the report or addendum, update the study state by selecting the relevant state and click the Save button. To return without saving changes, click Cancel.
Administrators have the ability to remove the last unapproved addendum from a report. A Delete button appears in the addendum’s section header on the Report page. Deleting the addendum removes it from every server in the hierarchy, and obsoletes it in the eRAD PACS archive. It does not remove addendums sent to third party archives. The action appears as an object-level delete activity in the log.
Administrators have the ability to reset the report state, even when it has been signed and approved by a radiologist. For reports with multiple components, such as one or more addendums, only the last component can be reset. To reset the report state, open the report and scroll to the component you want to change. In the component header, click the Unfinal link. The report component’s state will return to Preliminary.
Note: The Delete button and Unfinal link can be added to or removed from a report template. If you have administrator privileges and the tools do not appear on your report page, your templates may need to be updated.