Pre-imaging state anxiety assessed using the State questionnaire of the STAI [27] mean score in patients who also had second MR imaging after cross-referral.

Values are arithmetic mean (standard deviation [SD]). P values were obtained using the unpaired t-test. Of the 43 patients who had a second MR appointment, 30 had an event and also 30 patients had prior prevented or aborted MR examinations. Thirteen of the 56 patients with an event did not attend the second MR imaging appointment because of claustrophobia. See Figure 1 for the flow of patients.*Including MR imaging which was prevented, aborted or performed with conscious sedation due to claustrophobia.