Quality initiatives* radiation risk: what you should know to tell your patient.
Détails
Etat: Public
Version: de l'auteur⸱e
ID Serval
serval:BIB_55692201ED43
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Quality initiatives* radiation risk: what you should know to tell your patient.
Périodique
Radiographics
ISSN
1527-1323 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0271-5333
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
28
Numéro
7
Pages
1807-1816
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
The steady increase in the number of radiologic procedures being performed is undeniably having a beneficial impact on healthcare. However, it is also becoming common practice to quantify the health detriment from radiation exposure by calculating the number of cancer-related deaths inferred from the effective dose delivered to a given patient population. The inference of a certain number of expected deaths from the effective dose is to be discouraged, but it remains important as a means of raising professional awareness of the danger associated with ionizing radiation. The risk associated with a radiologic examination appears to be rather low compared with the natural risk. However, any added risk, no matter how small, is unacceptable if it does not benefit the patient. The concept of diagnostic reference levels should be used to reduce variations in practice among institutions and to promote optimal dose indicator ranges for specific imaging protocols. In general, the basic principles of radiation protection (eg, justification and optimization of a procedure) need to be respected to help counteract the unjustified explosion in the number of procedures being performed.
Mots-clé
Patient Education as Topic/methods, Physician-Patient Relations, Radiation Injuries/prevention & control, Radiation Protection/methods, Risk Assessment/methods, Risk Factors, Truth Disclosure, United States
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
06/01/2009 11:32
Dernière modification de la notice
20/08/2019 15:10