ICANL

Administrative Quality Assessment

• Appropriateness of procedures

• Scheduling back logs

• Late reports

• Patient wait times

Technical Quality Assessment

• Image quality

• Reproducibility of processed images and/or quantitative results

• Image display/labeling

• Radiopharmaceutical administration errors

• Radioactive spills

• Adverse effects

Interpretive and Therapeutic Quality Assessment: 

Program to evaluate ongoing accuracy and quality of reports. 

Areas that may be assessed include:

• Interobserver agreement (peer review)

• Correlation of interpretation with other diagnostic studies, pathology/surgical results and/or patient outcomes

• Correlation of intended therapeutic effects with patient response to therapy

Satisfaction Surveys and Meetings

• Patient Satisfaction

• Referring Physician Satisfaction

• QA Meetings - All personnel must be included in periodic facility meetings to provide in-service education containing relevant topics. Topics should include safety procedures and improvements to be made based on quality assessments and other information.