Knightly Donna V, Place James N
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, Lewistown, ME, USA.
Radiol Manage. 2010 Jan-Feb;32(1):16-23; quiz 24-5.
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, ME, was a recipient of the Putting Patients First grant program offered by AHRA and Toshiba. This article presents an overview of the grant activities and the salient findings. The dual focus of the best practice initiative was to promote the physician use of the evidence-based appropriateness criteria developed by the American College of Radiology and to determine ways to improve patient safety with an eye toward incorporating any best practice reported in the literature or recommended by bona fide experts in CT. Some of the resulting best practices consist of: optimizing scanning protocols and scanner settings, utilizing supplemental approaches to dose reduction, and referring patients to excellent online resources.
缅因州刘易斯顿的圣玛丽地区医疗中心是美国医疗放射学会（AHRA）和东芝公司提供的“患者至上”资助项目的受助者。本文概述了该资助项目的活动及显著成果。最佳实践倡议的双重重点是促进医生使用美国放射学会制定的循证适宜性标准，并确定改善患者安全的方法，同时关注纳入文献中报道的任何最佳实践或CT领域真正专家推荐的方法。由此产生的一些最佳实践包括：优化扫描方案和扫描仪设置、采用补充性剂量降低方法以及为患者推荐优质的在线资源。
