Keywords:
Workforce, Education and training, Safety, Medico-legal issues, Audit and standards, Fluoroscopy, CT, Conventional radiography, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Radiographers, Quality assurance
Authors:
A. Doyle, J. J. Binghay, R. crawley; Dublin/IE
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-3548
Results
During this campaign three audits were carried out.
The initial baseline audit established radiographer compliance with the local three-point identification policy results prior to any intervention are demonstrated in Fig.
[3].
This graph shows only 60 percent of three-point ID checks were carried out in accordance with the local three-point identification policy.
These results showed that there was a need for improvements in the way in which identification checks were carried out on patients prior to them receiving an exposure of ionising radiation.
The audit carried out after the PAUSED and checked campaign,
also displayed on Fig.
[3] showed improvements but revealed variations in practice.
In the first week after the staff meeting and launch of the PAUSED and checked campaign ,
30 three-point ID checks were audited and all 30 of them were carried out in accordance with the local three point identification policy,
therefore achieving 100 percent compliance.
However,
in the following six weeks the compliance results decreased to 93 percent and 83 percent.
This decrease in compliance along with the identified variations in practice identifed that more needed to be done to improve the results,
thus the traffic light campaign was designed and launched.
The traffic light campaign was launched in the same manner as the PAUSED and checked campaign; a staff meeting,
poster displays in the department and a further audit.
The results of the third audit are displayed in Fig.
[4].
This shows consistently good compliance over the seven weeks following the launch of the traffic light campaign.
A comparison of the results in Fig.
[5] demonstrates how both the PAUSED and checked checklist and traffic light campaign have helped to increase radiographer compliance in completing three-point ID checks in accordance with the local three point identification policy within the department.