Keywords:
Quality assurance, Education and training, Safety, Radiation safety, Computer Applications-General, CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Management, Computer applications
Authors:
A. Lutoschkin1, A. Peters1, R. Grosswiler1, R. Siegrist2, Y. Käser3, R. A. Kubik-Huch1, T. Niemann4; 1Baden/CH, 2Givisiez/CH, 3Uetikon am See/CH, 4Nussbaumen/CH
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-0771
Aims and objectives
In spite of process standardization and prudent adherence to standard operating procedures,
patient misidentification still remains an important issue in any field of public health care worldwide [1].
Patient misidentification in radiology,
especially in imaging modalities using ionizing radiation,
can on the one hand potentially misdiagnose a life-threatening disease [1,2] and on the other hand lead to substantial radiation exposure.
Therefore,
the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health recently enacted a regulation,
making it mandatory for all radiology departments to report unintended radiation exposure and take measures to avoid those incidents [3].
By introducing a critical incident reporting system (CIRS) many years ago,
our imaging department was already certified according to ISODIN EN ISO 9001:2015.
After analyzing common failures we furthermore sought for an IT-supported solution to support the computed tomography workflow of patient identification and hence increase patient safety using patient wristbands in combination with a dedicated software solution.