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Mac's Safety Space: And I'll return to claim your hand - as the King of California

Hospital Safety Connection, February 2, 2012

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I generally don’t single out any of the myriad potential demographics of this portion of the blogosphere, but the Joint Commission’s January 2012 Perspectives, has singled out of you good folks keeping the safety faith out in California, based on some state-level legislation promulgated back in 2010.

The focus of the legislation is those folks engaged in CT scanning activities, which I’m going to guess includes just about everyone (the standard applies to ambulatory, critical access, and hospital accreditation). I don’t see this as a particular nuisance for folks. I believe that everyone with a compliant radiation control program is on top of this, but if you’re not—even if outside of California—this new element of performance (EP) might be worthy of consideration moving forward.

EP #17 (an “A” EP) under EC.02.04.03 requires at least an annual measurement of the actual radiation dose produced by each CT imaging system, and further requires that the radiation dose displayed on the system is within 20% of the actual amount of radiation dose measured. Naturally, the dates of these verifications would be documented (and, by extension, made available during survey.)

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