A clinical audit of anatomical side marker use in a paediatric medical imaging department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The gold standard in general radiography is to place a radiopaque anatomical side marker in the field of view for each radiographic image prior to exposure. The advent of digital radiography has allowed for anatomical side markers to be digitally added to films as part of post-processing. The aim of this audit was to identify whether general X-ray images performed in a tertiary Women's and Children's Hospital were being appropriately annotated with a definitive side marker, and to identify factors that may contribute to inappropriately labelled images.

Methods

Four hundred images from 201 patients' examinations occurring within a randomly selected time period were assessed to ascertain whether radiographic anatomical side markers were visible when images were vi

SUBMITTER: Barry K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5016612 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature