I. Smith

TL;DR: Education and training in radiation protection as it applies to specific situations, established working procedures, availability and use of appropriate protective tools, and an effective monitoring programme are all essential elements in ensuring that medical personnel in X-ray imaging are adequately and acceptably protected.

TL;DR: The T(2), multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (MEWMA) and multivariate cumulative sum (MCUSUM) charts are considered in light of the challenges faced in clinical settings and how to handle incomplete records and non-normality of data is discussed.

TL;DR: Radiation exposure metrics for common cardiac angiography imaging procedures have been documented and linked to procedure complexity, which has implications for performance monitoring when comparing radiation usage between users, facilities, times and technologies.

TL;DR: A change point estimation method for Bernoulli processes in a Bayesian framework is developed and study of the known potential causes of changes in the outcomes reveals that estimated change points and shifts in the known causes are coincident.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared medication turnaround times in a paper-based hospital environment with a digital hospital equipped with a closed-loop electronic medication management system (EMMS), consisting of computerised physician order entry, profiled automated dispensing cabinets packaged with unit dose medications and barcode medication administration.