RADIATION PROTECTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Abstract:
Statistics highlight the increasing number of medical equipments and procedures using ionizing radiation in Romania. Some of these procedures involve high doses, the exposures may be repeated, and recording and saving information on patient doses are still inadequate, despite the existing legal provisions; in this context, recent studies confirm that practitioners are still reluctant to refuse unjustified examinations, and the issue of radiation protection of the patient becomes an actual public health problem. Public health specialists are confronted with the dilemma of the alternatives to solve existing problems, between a new excessive regulation or better information, assisted by control and the mechanisms of internal and external clinical audit, not as punitive means, but appealing to the professional deontology of the professionals.
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