Keywords:
Safety, Digital radiography, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Statistics, Biological effects
Authors:
A. Matković, L. Ištvanović, M. Drinkovic, J. Popic, V. Vidjak; Zagreb/HR
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-2281
Aims and objectives
Medical imaging exams are regular and unavoidable parts of diagnostic algorithms in a variety of different diseases.
Some of those utilize different kinds of ionizing radiation and expose patients to it.
Just the same,
despite the potential harm that ionizing radiation carries to their health,
patients are referred to various procedures in everyday practice.
It is suspected that patients are not adequately informed about the benefits and risks of different procedures or their alternatives,
as well as the risk of not undergoing an examination.
The aim of this study was to identify patients knowledge about ionizing radiation used in diagnostic imaging and whether they were adequately informed by their supervising physicians about the diagnostic procedure they were referred to.