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Keywords:
Workforce, Education and training, Dementia, Health policy and practice, Education, Diagnostic procedure, SPECT-CT, PET-CT, MR, Professional issues, Neuroradiology brain, Management
Authors:
M.-L. Butler1, A. Ciblis2, J. Durkin2, A. Bokde2, P. Mullins3, D. O'Neill2, J. P. McNulty2; 1Dublin /IE, 2Dublin/IE, 3Gwynedd/UK
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2014/C-1975
Methods and materials
The research design was a postal questionnaire survey.
Separate questionnaires containing open and closed questions relating to accessibility,
perceived importance of referral patterns,
including adherence to guidelines,
and knowledge relating to neuroimaging in dementia were developed for the individual groups (clinicians,
radiologists,
radiographers).
The questionnaires were posted nationally to all neurologists (n = 46),
geriatricians (n = 78),
old-age psychiatrists (n = 53) and all radiologists (n = 236).
Since there is currently no national listing of radiographers,
a pre-questionnaire letter was sent to all radiography service mangers (RSMs) located in non-specialised hospitals or private services (n = 51) inviting them to partake in the survey.
Interested RSMs were sent a questionnaire for distribution among the radiographers in their service.
The survey was completely anonymous.
Respondents were given four weeks to return the questionnaire.
There was no follow-up.
This study was granted an ethical exemption by the UCD Human Subjects Research Ethics Committee (Research Ethics Exemption Reference Number (REERN) is: LS-E-12-191-McNulty).