Background/introduction
Promoting quality and safety is one of the major objectives of the International Society of Radiology (ISR). In 2016, the ISR set up the ISR Quality and Safety Alliance (ISRQSA). ISRQSA acts as convener of and facilitator for continental, regional and national radiation protection and quality and safety and aims to establish a strategic plan for related efforts worldwide. Specific goals include contributions towards justification and optimisation, education, equipment performance, regulatory guidance, communication, and medical radiation protection research.
Fig. 1: ISRQSA logo
Description of activity and work performed
The ISR collaborates with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), with whom ISR has the status of a Non-State Actor in official relations, and other international and interprofessional stakeholders and radiological quality and safety initiatives. The collaboration with the IAEA Radiation Protection of Patients Unit and the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section as well as with the WHO focuses, among other things, on the implementation of the International Radiation Basic Safety Standards (BSS) and Bonn Call for Action.
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Conclusion and recommendations
For 2020, ISRQSA focuses on further implementing the WHO/ISR work plan 2019-2021, including activities relating to justification through guidelines – which is also a central topic for all ISRQSA partner campaigns –, quality and safety in non-ionising radiation, ethical aspects of medical radiation protection, and awareness raising and radiation risk communication, including ISRQSA’s update of the WHO website sections related to imaging, as well as the finalization of the ISR-EuroSafe Imaging paper on the role of radiology in the global public health agenda. An increasing...
Personal/organisational information
G. Frija; Paris/FR - nothing to disclose
D. P. Frush; Durham, NC/US - nothing to disclose
References
Fig. 1: ISRQSA logo - references: ISR
Fig. 2: ISRQSA member campaigns - references: ISRQSA