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 or transcribe privileges. The viewer must be installed and running in standby mode. 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.
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. Word count fields update automatically as you type. Clear the Normal checkbox to flag the report on the worklist (it appears in light orange).
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. 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 (on the left) and click on the Send Report button. To return without saving changes, close the window and click Ignore Changes.
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, each 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.