Patient cumulative radiation exposure—the potential for unintended consequences
- 26.03.2020
- Editorial
Erschienen in:
- Verfasst von
- Colin Walsh
- Geraldine O’Reilly
- Dara Murphy
- Erschienen in
- European Radiology | Ausgabe 8/2020
Abstract
Several recent publications have sought to highlight the benefits of tracking patient radiation exposure and how it can be used to strengthen the justification and optimization processes to enhance patient safety. In some cases, authors promote the use of dose tracking to keep medical prescribers aware of the patients’ cumulative exposure, presumably with a view to influencing the justification process. Inclusion of patient dose history in the justification process can be problematic for reasons that are not always well understood by medical prescribers. Our paper seeks to highlight these issues and attempts to provide some clarification.
Key Points
• Care must be taken in how cumulative radiation exposure is interpreted as it pertains to the justification process.
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- Titel
- Patient cumulative radiation exposure—the potential for unintended consequences
- Verfasst von
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Colin Walsh
Geraldine O’Reilly
Dara Murphy
- Publikationsdatum
- 26.03.2020
- Verlag
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Erschienen in
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European Radiology / Ausgabe 8/2020
Print ISSN: 0938-7994
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1084 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06800-1
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