Dose Registry Support Services is founded on two premises: Radiology departments should lead their facility’s dose reduction efforts; Facilities need and want effective solutions at a reasonable cost. Our service is designed to achieve both. I developed this service for a health system in the mid-west. We enrolled some of their facilities in the DIR… Read More
Here are recent examples of the successes two of our sites reported to their radiation safety committees. This first example is a chart showing one facility’s average monthly Total DLP for its Chest Angio studies from early 2016 through Q1 2018. Overall, this site reduced its average Total DLP for its Chest Angio studies by… Read More
One of the more interesting and unique benefits Dose Registry Support Services’ DoseID Program has for facilities is its ability to shed light on duplicate and superfluous protocols in use at their facilities. The table to the right shows how one facility had 7 different protocols being used on a single scanner during a recent 3 month… Read More
The following question was submitted to the Joint Commission: Must we establish an expected dose range for every imaging protocol or can we pick and choose the protocols for which we establish expected dose ranges and monitor only those? I interpret [PI.02.01.01.A.6.] to require monitoring of every protocol we use, not just some portion of… Read More
This article describes how the ACR’s Dose Index Registry (DIR) can be used to perform both incident identification and external benchmarking as required by the Joint Commission’s (TJC) 2015 Diagnostic Imaging Standards issued August 10, 2015. Read More
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