DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED LIST FOR STANDARDIZED STUDY DESCRIPTIONS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DOSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN RADIOLOGY

  • SOLEEN JALADET ALSOFI Dept.of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq
  • MARTIN FIEBICH Dept.of Medical Physics, THM, Germany
Keywords: KEYWORDS: Radiology study descriptions, RadLex Playbook, Radiology Information System, Diagnostic Reference Level, Standardization, Dose management

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Diagnostic Radiology is an important field in medicine used as a diagnostic tool for diseases and injuries evaluation. However, exposure to high radiation doses could have negative impact on someone’s health, therefore a dose management solution is needed to organize and coordinate the patient dose values. It is crucial to present the role of standardization study descriptions in the implementation of dose management systems in radiology. RadLex Playbook is one of the standardization study descriptions. With over 1000 CT scans the implementation of the mapping structure is very complicated. Therefore, a modified version is needed to reduce the number of examinations due to its possible problems through data mapping by suggesting a new list called “a reduced and embedded RadLex Playbook”. To achieve this, three major systems were investigated. RIS (which was obtained from a German institute), DRL (using the German standardized study description) and RadLex Playbook. These systems were suggested to develop a strategy for data mapping and radiology procedure coded in different institutions. Direct mapping between RIS and DRL works only on specific institutionalized cases, therefore RadLex will act as an intermedium in between. Because RadLex has too many study descriptions, the suggested reduced list may help.

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Published
2020-06-07
How to Cite
ALSOFI, S. J., & FIEBICH, M. (2020). DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED LIST FOR STANDARDIZED STUDY DESCRIPTIONS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DOSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN RADIOLOGY. Journal of Duhok University, 23(1), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.26682/sjuod.2020.23.1.6
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