Medical position
The medical office is usually a facility for quality assurance in the use of medical radiation, which is located at the respective German medical associations . Your activity is set out in the X-ray Ordinance and the Radiation Protection Ordinance. Corresponding dental offices (including X-ray offices ) are maintained by the dental chambers - sometimes together with the statutory health insurance associations .
The medical office checks whether institutions that are authorized to use ionizing radiation or radioactive substances on people comply with the necessary quality standards. The aim is to keep patient radiation exposure as low as possible.
For this purpose, the medical office requests equipment-related and patient-related documents from the facilities that use ionizing radiation ( radiology , nuclear medicine , radiation therapy ) at fixed intervals : in particular X-rays and scintigrams , but also written records for justifying indication for The level of radiation exposure or applied activity and the findings of the respective examinations, as well as the records of the quality controls to be carried out regularly ( constancy tests ) of the devices. The medical office then makes suggestions to the users to improve the quality of the images, to reduce the radiation exposure and to improve the quality in general. After a specified interval, a check is carried out to determine whether the suggestions have been implemented. The medical center reports to the competent authority
- the results of the tests,
- continued exceeding of the established diagnostic reference values with regard to radiation exposure or activity used,
- any non-observance of the suggestions for improvement.
If the quality standards are not observed, the supervisory authority can withdraw the license to operate the facility from users of ionizing radiation.
See also
Web links
- Section 17a Quality assurance by medical and dental offices of the X-ray Ordinance of 2011
- Section 83 Quality assurance in the medical use of radiation of the Radiation Protection Ordinance of 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ The X-ray Center of the Bavarian Dentists (RBZ) introduces itself BZB, issue 3 March 2008, pp. 22-23