[Ethics and artificial intelligence]. / Ethik und künstliche Intelligenz.

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into radiology promises to enhance efficiency and improve diagnostic accuracy, yet it also raises manifold ethical questions. These include data protection issues, the future role of radiologists, liability when using AI systems, and the avoidance of bias. To prevent data bias, the datasets need to be compiled carefully and to be representative of the target population. Accordingly, the upcoming European Union AI act sets particularly high requirements for the datasets used in training medical AI systems. Cognitive bias occurs when radiologists place too much trust in the results provided by AI systems (overreliance). So far, diagnostic AI systems are used almost exclusively as "second look" systems. If diagnostic AI systems are to be used in the future as "first look" systems or even as autonomous AI systems in order to enhance efficiency in radiology, the question of liability needs to be addressed, comparable to liability for autonomous driving. Such use of AI would also significantly change the role of radiologists.

Does radiology require informed consent for radiation risk?

Recent trends in medical decision-making have moved from paternalistic doctor-patient relations to shared decision-making. Informed consent is fundamental to this process and to ensuring patients' ongoing trust in the health-care profession. It cannot be assumed that patients consent to the risk associated with medical exposures, unless they have been provided with the information to make that decision. This position is supported by both the legal and ethical framework around Radiation Protection detailed in this commentary.

Contribución actual de la reunión clínico radiológica dentro del proceso educativo constructivista / Current radiological clinical meeting contribution amid constructivist educational process

La reunión clínico radiológica es una actividad académica influenciada y desarrollada las técnicas de la comunicación e información, así como por el advenimiento de nuevos recursos imagenológicos, por lo que su estructura como función asistencial y docente necesita de un nuevo modelo de actuación que mejore su utilidad asistencial, docente e investigativa a través de la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación. Se realizó revisión de las prácticas clínicas y radiológicas reportadas en los últimos diez años en los sitios ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Google escolar, Dialnet, Redalyc y Educateca a través de las palabras claves: servicio de radiología en hospital, educación, educación basado en competencias, y medios de comunicación. Se establecen elementos pedagógicos para crear un modelo que involucre las nueva tecnologías de la comunicación, interdisciplinaria y multidisciplinaria, donde el estudiante como centro del proceso educativo desarrolle los procesos de producción del conocimiento y aprendizaje profesional. El modelo estructurado propuesto permite su aplicabilidad en universidades y hospitales universitarios para la realización de las clínicas radiológicas a través de un proceso constructivista, utilizando las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación con fundamentos integradores en la docencia medica(AU)

The radiological clinical meeting is an academic activity influenced and developed the techniques of communication and information, as well as the advent of new imaging resources, so that its structure as a care and teaching function needs a new model of action that improves its usefulness Assistance, teaching and research through the incorporation of new information and communication technologies. A review of the clinical and radiological practices reported in the last ten years in the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), Google scholar, Dialnet, Redalyc and Educateca sites was carried out through the keywords: radiology service in hospital, education, education Based on skills, and media. Pedagogical elements are established to create a model that involves the new communication technologies, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, where the students as the center of the educational process develop the processes of knowledge production and professional learning. The proposed structured model allows its applicability in universities and university hospitals for the realization of radiological clinics through a constructivist process, using the new information and communication technologies with integrative foundations in medical teaching(AU)

Deber ético del radiólogo: confidencialidad y secreto médico, respeto a la intimidad y dignidad del paciente / Radiologists' duties: confidentiality and professional secrecy, respect for patients' dignity and intimacy

La práctica médica debe estar siempre enmarcada en un ejercicio profesional moralmente aceptable, que procure la promoción y respeto de los principios éticos fundamentales de la medicina, manteniendo el beneficio del paciente como objetivo principal. Al igual que otras especialidades, en el ejercicio de la radiología, se debe cuidar el marco ético profesional que obliga a velar por el respeto de la dignidad e intimidad de las personas y todo lo relacionado con la confidencialidad del acto médico. En el ejercicio de la radiología, al igual en que otros actos médicos, se tiene acceso a información sensible y privada de los pacientes, lo que obliga a hacer un correcto uso de ella, resguardando las normas de privacidad y secreto profesional. Se debe enseñar y sensibilizar a los alumnos y al personal que asiste en el cuidado de los pacientes, para asegurar un comportamiento acorde a las normas éticas que rigen la práctica radiológica.

An ethical and professional medical behavior, which promotes and respects the ethical principles of medicine, is a goal that should always be pursued in medical practice. In radiology, as in other medical specialties, this includes respect for patients' dignity, intimacy and confidentiality. The possibility of accessing patients' private information compels radiologists to make a correct usage of this information, in order to respect professional secrecy and privacy codes that rule medical practice. Radiologists must teach and raise awareness among their students and co-workers in health care institutions of the importance of ethical behavior in their daily practice.

Radiología médico-legal: un dilema ético para el técnico en radiología / Medical-legal radiology: an ethical dilemma for radiology technician / Radiologia médico-legal: um dilema ético para o técnico de Radiologia

Resumen: Las exploraciones radiológicas médico-legales incluyen exposiciones médicas a radiaciones que se realizan por orden judicial a una persona que no está enferma. El técnico o tecnólogo médico en radiología tiene el deber de minimizar las dosis a pacientes y a la población en su conjunto; por ello, realizar este tipo de exploraciones entra en conflicto con las máximas de la protección radiológica y de su código ético. Presentamos un estudio de revisión donde se analiza si estas prácticas médicas son contrarias a la ética profesional del técnico en radiología.

Abstract: The medico-legal, radiological examinations include those medical exposures to radiation conducted by court order a person who is not sick. The radiologic technologist has a duty to minimize the dose to patients and the population as a whole, therefore, make this type of exploration conflicts with the maximum of Radiation Protection and its ethical code. We present a review study where we analyze whether these medical practices are contrary to professional ethics of the Radiologic technologist.

Resumo: As explorações radiológicas médico-legais incluem aquelas exposições médicas a radiações que se realizam por ordem judicial a uma pessoa que não está doente. O técnico ou tecnólogo médico em radiologia tem o dever de minimizar a dose para os pacientes e a população como um todo; portanto, realizar este tipo de exploração entra em conflito com os princípios da proteção radiológica e de seu código de ética. Apresentamos um estudo de revisão no qual analisamos se estas práticas médicas são contrárias à ética profissional do técnico em radiologia.

Rethinking Normal: Benefits and Risks of Not Reporting Harmless Incidental Findings.

The authors explore the benefits and risks of not reporting imaging findings that do not have clinical relevance, with the goal of developing recommendations to reduce their reporting. The authors review the example of incidentally detected, simple renal cysts (Bosniak category I), including medicolegal conditions required for such a shift in reporting practices to be acceptable. The authors propose four potential criteria for not reporting clinically unimportant findings and recommend that these criteria be debated in other contexts, so that they can be refined and implemented.

Propuesta de instrumentos para evaluar las competencias comunicativas de especialistas en imagenología / Proposal of instruments to evaluate the communicative competencies of imaging specialists

Se presentan los instrumentos diseñados en una investigación educativa, que se realizó durante el período mayo-septiembre de 2011, en el Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Hermanos Ameijeiras en la especialidad de Imagenología, con el objetivo de evaluar las competencias comunicativas adquiridas durante su formación como especialistas. Para ello se realizó una extensa revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema que permitió la selección de instrumentos que habían sido aplicados para este mismo fin en otros contextos y fueron adecuados para aplicarse en la institución antes referida, para la aprobación del proyecto de investigación y de los instrumentos a utilizar, se realizó un grupo nominal con los profesores de la especialidad que poseían categorías docentes principales de Titular y Auxiliar, los que funcionaron como expertos en el tema. En el trabajo se aportan los aspectos conceptuales fundamentales que llevaron a la selección y adecuación de los instrumentos. Se presentan como resultado los instrumentos que se elaboraron para la obtención de la información: una encuesta y una guía de observación que se aplicaría en situaciones reales de su desempeño durante la atención a pacientes.

With the objective of evaluating the communicative skills acquired in their specialization courses, the instruments designed in an educational research work carried out from May through September 2011 in the imaging specialty in "Hermanos Ameijeiras" clinical and surgical hospital were presented in this paper. To this end, an extensive literature review was made on the topic to select those instruments that had been previously applied for the same purpose but in another setting, and they were finally adapted to be used in the aforementioned medical institution. Full and associate professors in this specialty made up a group which served as experts. The paper provided the fundamental conceptual elements that led to the selection and adequacy of the instruments. The final result was the designed instruments to collect information, that is, a survey and an observation guideline that would be applied in real life situations to assess their performance during the care of patient.

Shared decision-making: is it time to obtain informed consent before radiologic examinations utilizing ionizing radiation? Legal and ethical implications.

Concerns about the possibility of developing cancer due to diagnostic imaging examinations utilizing ionizing radiation exposure are increasing. Research studies of survivors of atomic bomb explosions, nuclear reactor accidents, and other unanticipated exposures to similar radiation have led to varying conclusions regarding the stochastic effects of radiation exposure. That high doses of ionizing radiation cause cancer in humans is generally accepted, but the question of whether diagnostic levels of radiation cause cancer continues to be hotly debated. It cannot be denied that overexposure to ionizing radiation beyond a certain threshold, which has not been exactly determined, does generate cancer. This causes a dilemma: what should patients be informed about the possibility that a CT or similar examination might cause cancer later in life? At present, there is no consensus in the radiology community as to whether informed consent must be obtained from a patient before the patient undergoes a CT or similar examination. The author analyzes whether there is a legal duty mandating radiologists to obtain such informed consent but also, irrespective of the law, whether there an ethical duty that compels radiologists to inform patients of potential adverse effects of ionizing radiation. Over the past decade, there has been a noticeable shift from a benevolent, paternalistic approach to medical care to an autonomy-based, shared-decision-making approach, whereby patient and physician work as partners in determining what is medically best for the patient. Radiologists should discuss the benefits and hazards of imaging with their patients.