World Health Organization Publication : Year 1982 ; Issue 9241541644: Quality Assurance in Diagnostic Radiology

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization Publication : Year 1982 ; Issue 9241541644: Quality Assurance in Diagnostic Radiology
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Excerpt
A MEETING on efficacy and efficiency in the diagnostic application of radiation and radionuclides, held in Neuherberg in December 1979 by the organizers of the 1980 Workshop, concluded that an important step in the development of efficacylefficiency studies would be the design and adoption by all countries of a programme of quality control and assurance in the domain of radiodiagnostic and nuclear medicine, with the aim of improving the diagnostic quality of procedures and reducing wastage. The meeting felt that WHO and the International Atomic Energy Agency should play a catalytic role in the design and implementation of this quality control and assurance programme. It also considered that better diagnostic images, which could lead to more accurate diagnoses and better-informed decisions regarding treatment, would benefit not only the health of individual patients but also the health status of the population-albeit that this effect is very difficult to demonstrate.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . Aims of quality assurance in diagnostic radiology . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Identification of needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Solution to the problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Prerequisites for quality assurance programmes . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 Retake analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Test objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . Organizational framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Essential elements of a quality assurance programme . . . . . 4.2 Organization within the radiological facility . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 Equipment manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 The national organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 Scientific/professional societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 National authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 International bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Specific equipment considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 General aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Radiographic equipment: parameters to be checked . . . . . . 5.3 Image recording and processing equipment: parameters to be checked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 Fluoroscopic equipment: parameters to be checked . . . . . . 5.5 Special radiology equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 Photofluorographic equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . Training requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 Categories of personnel and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 Practical versus theoretical training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 Special versus integrated training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4 Suggestions for curricula for different types of training . . . . 6.5 National versus international training . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Recapitulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 Radiological facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 Manufacturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3 Scientific/professional societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 National authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5 International participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 1. Definitions of tenns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 2 . Participants in the Neuherberg Workshop . . . . . . . . .