Šegota Doris, Diklic Ana, Jurkovic Slaven
Medical Physics Department, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Krešimirova 42, Rijeka, Croatia.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Braće Branchetta 20, Rijeka, Croatia.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2018 Dec 1;182(3):329-334. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncy069.
Quality Assurance program on using ionizing radiation is mandatory in all EU member states but this is still not implemented in most facilities in Croatia mostly because of a lack of medical physicists in diagnostic radiology. Since public health institutions in Croatia do not employ medical physicists in diagnostic radiology, collaboration between these institutions in west region of Croatia with Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka (CHC) was initiated during the year 2015. Physicists from CHC Rijeka performed periodical Quality Control (QC) tests and were included in optimization process. Results of QC tests during the period of 2 years showed a lot of improvements-equipment is maintained more frequently, some old units were replaced with new ones and all institutions acquired QC equipment so radiographers could perform daily and monthly QC tests. All these activities showed that medical physics support in radiology departments is necessary and can improve clinical practice.
在所有欧盟成员国，关于使用电离辐射的质量保证计划是强制性的，但在克罗地亚的大多数机构中，这一计划仍未实施，主要原因是诊断放射学领域缺乏医学物理学家。由于克罗地亚的公共卫生机构在诊断放射学方面不雇佣医学物理学家，2015年期间，克罗地亚西部地区的这些机构与里耶卡临床医院中心（CHC）展开了合作。里耶卡临床医院中心的物理学家进行了定期质量控制（QC）测试，并参与了优化过程。两年期间的质量控制测试结果显示有很多改进——设备维护更加频繁，一些旧设备被新设备取代，所有机构都购置了质量控制设备，以便放射技师能够进行每日和每月的质量控制测试。所有这些活动表明，放射科的医学物理支持是必要的，并且可以改善临床实践。
