EXPOSURE OF THE SWISS POPULATION BY RADIODIAGNOSTICS: 2013 REVIEW

In 2013, a nationwide investigation was conducted in Switzerland to establish the population's exposure from medical X rays. A hybrid approach was used combining the Raddose database accessible on-line by the participating practices and the Swiss medical tariffication system for hospitals. This...

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Autores principales: Le Coultre, Régis, Bize, Julie, Champendal, Mélanie, Wittwer, David, Ryckx, Nick, Aroua, Abbas, Trueb, Philipp, Verdun, Francis R.
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26541187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncv462
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author Le Coultre, Régis
Bize, Julie
Champendal, Mélanie
Wittwer, David
Ryckx, Nick
Aroua, Abbas
Trueb, Philipp
Verdun, Francis R.
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Bize, Julie
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Aroua, Abbas
Trueb, Philipp
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description In 2013, a nationwide investigation was conducted in Switzerland to establish the population's exposure from medical X rays. A hybrid approach was used combining the Raddose database accessible on-line by the participating practices and the Swiss medical tariffication system for hospitals. This study revealed that the average annual number of examinations is 1.2 per inhabitant, and the associated annual effective dose is 1.4 mSv. It also showed that computed tomography is the most irradiating modality and that it delivers 70 % of the total dose. The annual effective dose per inhabitant registered a 17 % increase in 5 y and is comparable with what was recently reported in neighbouring countries.
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spelling pubmed-49119612016-06-20 EXPOSURE OF THE SWISS POPULATION BY RADIODIAGNOSTICS: 2013 REVIEW Le Coultre, Régis Bize, Julie Champendal, Mélanie Wittwer, David Ryckx, Nick Aroua, Abbas Trueb, Philipp Verdun, Francis R. Radiat Prot Dosimetry Paper In 2013, a nationwide investigation was conducted in Switzerland to establish the population's exposure from medical X rays. A hybrid approach was used combining the Raddose database accessible on-line by the participating practices and the Swiss medical tariffication system for hospitals. This study revealed that the average annual number of examinations is 1.2 per inhabitant, and the associated annual effective dose is 1.4 mSv. It also showed that computed tomography is the most irradiating modality and that it delivers 70 % of the total dose. The annual effective dose per inhabitant registered a 17 % increase in 5 y and is comparable with what was recently reported in neighbouring countries. Oxford University Press 2016-06 2016-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4911961/ /pubmed/26541187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncv462 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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