Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2020
Keywords:
Multicentre study, Not applicable, Quality assurance, Education and training, Dosimetric comparison, eLearning, Computer Applications-General, Audit and standards, CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Action 4 - Dose management systems
Authors:
P. Valdes Solis, J. R. Ledesma Aguilar, T. Garzón Benavides, F. Castaño Garcia , D. Pachón Rios
DOI:
10.26044/esi2020/ESI-14455
Conclusion and recommendations
- CT imaging is an important source of ionizing radiation in the general population.
- Using up to date equipment is relevant, as it can significatively reduce individual and poblational radiation dose.
- Renewing and maintaining the CT facilities in a big community, as Andalusia is, is complex and expensive.
- Using new and innovative ways of acquiring services, and long term contracts, is a way of solving this problem, even when the budget is limited.
- Having an only supplier can be difficult to understand, but has many advantages, such as the possibility of unifying protocols and controlling radiation dose in the whole Andalusia. In the long term, it will allow to have Big Data related to radiation dose.
This kind of initiatives, as the one that the Servicio Andaluz de Salud has developed, increases health quality, will allow a decrease in individual and poblational radiation dose, while following the purposes of a public and free health service. SERAM supports this kind of initiatives, as it increases health quality and patient safety.