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[A quality evaluation in requests for thoracic radiology in chronic pathology at a health center]
V R Cabedo García1, R Cantos Escudero, A Corbella y Jané
1Centro de salud Can Misses-Ibiza.
Objective:
To improve the quality of thoracic x-ray requests during chronic illness, presenting criteria for indication in HTA, LCFA and TBC.
Design:
Intervention study of quality improvement.
Setting:
Can Misses Health Centre in Ibiza.
Participants:
The General Practitioners at the above centre.
Measurements And Main Results:
In this study we proposed to evaluate the work of the doctors at our Health Centre in correctly requesting x-ray explorations on the basis of two explicit, standard criteria: 1) the reason for the thorax x-ray request must be stated in the clinical notes. 2) Thorax x-rays requested for LCFA, HTA and TBC must be correctly indicated.
Conclusion:
The use of structured criteria in thorax x-ray requests for chronic patients appears to lead to greater quality in requests for this complementary exploration.