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
DRSS’s DoseID Service Now Includes Draft Policies For Client Use
DRSS is now providing clients with the following 8 draft policies it may adapt for use at their facilities: [Facility Name] CT Dose Optimization Policy [Facility Name] Quality Control and Maintenance Activities Policy [Facility Name] Physicist Evaluation Policy [Facility Name] Verification and Documentation of Medical Physicist Qualifications Policy [Facility Name] Verification and Documentation of CT… Read More
Meeting The Joint Commission’s Dose Incident Identification and External Benchmarking Requirements Using the ACR’s Dose Index Registry
Here is the Abstract and link to an article I co-authored which was recently published in the JACR online edition, and which will be published in the JACR August print edition. The article describes how we used our ACR Dose Index Registry data to meet The Joint Commission’s requirement to establish expected dose ranges for every CT protocol and… Read More
Joint Commission Confirms Facilities Need an Expected Dose Range for All CT Protocols; Note to Self: XR-29 Does NOT Equal TJC Compliance
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
The Joint Commission’s Post Exam Incident Identification and Review Requirement
The Joint Commission (TJC) released its updated Diagnostic Imaging Requirements August 10, 2015. While many of these new requirements paired nicely with the new XR-29 equipment standards for dose recording and alerting the technologist when the system “projects” the prescribed scans will exceed the user-configured value (i.e., a pre-exam alert), the section titled Element of Performance for PI.02.01.01 A6. presents… Read More
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