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Development and Implementation of a Professional Practices Evaluation during Radiopharmaceuticals Administration

Securing both the patient and radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) circuit is an essential concern in nuclear medicine (NM). These circuits converge at the RP administration phase, a key step in patient management in NM. In a continuous quality improvement approach, we developed and implemented an evaluation...

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Autores principales: Donzé, Charlotte, Rubira, Léa, Santoro, Lore, Kotzki, Pierre Olivier, Deshayes, Emmanuel, Fersing, Cyril
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9690994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36360590
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112247
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Rubira, Léa
Santoro, Lore
Kotzki, Pierre Olivier
Deshayes, Emmanuel
Fersing, Cyril
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description Securing both the patient and radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) circuit is an essential concern in nuclear medicine (NM). These circuits converge at the RP administration phase, a key step in patient management in NM. In a continuous quality improvement approach, we developed and implemented an evaluation of professional practices (EPPs) methodology focused on RPs injection to identify and correct deviations from good practices. The nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs) of a single center were evaluated. A specific audit grid was designed for this purpose, covering 4 main themes. Following the audit campaign, an improvement action plan was set up to address the non-conformities observed. Nine NMTs were audited on 4 RPs injections each. The mean total score was 93.36% with, on average, 7.01% and 3.00% of unmet and partially met criteria, respectively. In view of the non-compliance rates of hygiene and radiation protection items, theoretical reviews of these themes were included in the improvement action plan. As a part of the quality assurance system of a healthcare unit, EPPs are useful for identifying and correcting practice deviations at an early stage. They should be regularly repeated and combined with rigorous training and qualification of operators involved in RPs injection.
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spelling pubmed-96909942022-11-25 Development and Implementation of a Professional Practices Evaluation during Radiopharmaceuticals Administration Donzé, Charlotte Rubira, Léa Santoro, Lore Kotzki, Pierre Olivier Deshayes, Emmanuel Fersing, Cyril Healthcare (Basel) Article Securing both the patient and radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) circuit is an essential concern in nuclear medicine (NM). These circuits converge at the RP administration phase, a key step in patient management in NM. In a continuous quality improvement approach, we developed and implemented an evaluation of professional practices (EPPs) methodology focused on RPs injection to identify and correct deviations from good practices. The nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs) of a single center were evaluated. A specific audit grid was designed for this purpose, covering 4 main themes. Following the audit campaign, an improvement action plan was set up to address the non-conformities observed. Nine NMTs were audited on 4 RPs injections each. The mean total score was 93.36% with, on average, 7.01% and 3.00% of unmet and partially met criteria, respectively. In view of the non-compliance rates of hygiene and radiation protection items, theoretical reviews of these themes were included in the improvement action plan. As a part of the quality assurance system of a healthcare unit, EPPs are useful for identifying and correcting practice deviations at an early stage. They should be regularly repeated and combined with rigorous training and qualification of operators involved in RPs injection. MDPI 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9690994/ /pubmed/36360590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112247 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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