DocumentCode :
186256
Title :
Normalizing medical imaging archives for dose quality assurance and productivity auditing
Author :
Silva, Luis A. Bastiao ; Ribeiro, Luis ; Costa, C. ; Oliveira, Jose Luis ; Santos, Marcos
Author_Institution :
DETI, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
fYear :
2014
fDate :
11-12 June 2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
Quality assurance for planned radiation exposure situations (e.g. x-ray, CT) requires the application of examination-specific scans tailored to patient age or size, body region and clinical indication for ensuring that the dose to each patient is as low as reasonably achievable for the clinical purpose of the image acquisition. Nevertheless, assuring quality implies a heavy manual labor to measure and optimize care services flow. There are already several methodologies and protocols that can be used to achieve this objective. However, the continuous monitoring of quality indicators is still not performed in many healthcare centers. The challenge is to find a way to analyze these metrics in an efficient, effective and convenient manner. Moreover, these results are not often shared, due to confidentiality and privacy of patients and medical staff. In this paper, we propose a methodology and a software tool to aggregate and normalize the monitoring data from distinct points, in order to collect indicators, namely about productivity, efficiency and dose usage, factors that are crucial for benchmarking and for improving the quality of protocol procedures. To evaluate the effectiveness of our solution, several results were collected from two medical institutions.
Keywords :
PACS; auditing; computerised tomography; data analysis; diagnostic radiography; dosimetry; medical information systems; monitoring; optimisation; patient care; productivity; protocols; quality assurance; CT planning; X-ray planning; care service flow measurement; care service flow optimization; clinical indication; clinical purpose; continuous quality indicator monitoring; crucial benchmarking factor indicators; dose quality assurance; dose usage indicators; efficiency indicators; examination-specific scan application; examination-specific scan tailoring; healthcare centers; image acquisition; medical imaging archive normalization; medical institutions; medical staff confidentiality; medical staff privacy; monitoring data aggregation; monitoring data normalization; patient age; patient body region; patient confidentiality; patient dose; patient privacy; patient size; productivity auditing; productivity indicators; protocol procedure quality; protocols; quality metric analysis; radiation exposure situation planning; software tool; Computed tomography; DICOM; Measurement; Monitoring; Picture archiving and communication systems; Productivity; DICOM; Medical Imaging; Monitoring; PACS; Quality of Service;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2920-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MeMeA.2014.6860112
Filename :
6860112
Link To Document :
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