Quantifying Radiation Safety and Quality in MedicalImaging, Part 3: The Quality Assurance Scorecard

摘要

The practice of medical imaging; is fraught with inconsistency as it relates to quality assurance, which is due in part to the latk of standardization and objective quality-centric data. By appking the scientific methods of Shewhart and Deming to medical imagingquality assessment, one can devise an objective, data-driven qualitv model, encompassing the various sreps and processes that take place within the medical imaging chain. Through automated recording, tracking, and analysis ol these qualin data elements, a quantitative scorecard can be derived that provides an objective measure of quality performance, relating; to each individual process, participating stakeholder, and technology being used. Through mcra-analvsis of these quality-centric data, best practice guidelines can be created, which in turn promote qualirv as the major different iaring feature of service providers.