Radiological informed consent in cardiovascular imaging: Towards the medico-legal perfect storm?

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bedetti, Gigliola ^a   Loré, Cosimo ^b  

^a S Maria della Scaletta Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT RIGHT; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT RIGHTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36348975047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-5-35     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Economic and biological costs of cardiac imaging. E Picano, Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3 13 15916702 10.1186/1476-7120-3-13
2. Informed consent and communication of risk from radiological and nuclear medicine examinations: how to escape from a communication inferno. E Picano, BMJ 2004 329 7470 849 851 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.849 15472270
3. Low-dose extrapolation of radiation-related cancer risk. J Valentin, Ann ICRP 2005 35 4 1 140 10.1016/j.icrp.2005.11.002
4. Health Risks From Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII Phase 2. Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation; Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press 2006
5. Sustainability of medical imaging. E Picano, BMJ 2004 328 7439 578 580 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.578 15001510
6. Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/treaties/html/164. htm
7. Health protection of individuals against the dangers of ionizing radiation in relation to medical exposure and repealing Directive 84/466/Euratom. Council Directive 97/43/EURATOM of 30 June 1997, http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radioprotection/doc/legislation/9743_en.pdf
8. Medical professionalism in the new millennium: a physicians charter. ABIM Foundation. American Board of Internal Medicine ACP-ASIM Foundation. American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine European Federation of Internal Medicine, Ann Intern Med 2002 136 3 243 246 11827500
9. Estimating risk of cancer associated with radiation exposure from 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography. AJ Einstein MJ Henzlova S Rajagopalan, JAMA 2007 298 317 323 10.1001/jama.298.3.317 17635892
10. Assessment of radiation dose awareness among pediatricians. KE Thomas JE Parnell-Parmely S Haidar R Moineddin E Charkot G BenDavid C Krajewski, Pediatr Radiol 2006 36 8 823 832 10.1007/s00247-006-0170-x 16699764
11. Sub-optimal awareness of radiological dose among patients undergoing cardiac stress scintigraph. G Bedetti C Pizzi G Gavaruzzi F Lugaresi A Cicognani E Picano, J Am Coll Radiol 2008
12. Doctors' knowledge of radiation exposure: questionnaire study. S Shiralkar A Rennie M Snow RB Galland MH Lewis K Gower-Thomas, BMJ 2003 327 371 372 12919987 10.1136/bmj.327.7411.371
13. Do physicians correctly estimate radiation risks from medical imaging? A Finestone T Schlesinger H Amir E Richter C Milgrom, Arch Environ Health 2003 58 59 61 10.3200/AEOH.58.1.59-62 12747521
14. Lack of radiological awareness among physicians working in a tertiary-care cardiological centre. MJ Correia A Hellies MG Andreassi B Ghelarducci E Picano, Int J Cardiol 2005 103 3 307 311 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.08. 070 16098394
15. Diagnostic CT scans: assessment of patient, physician, and radiologist awareness of radiation dose and possible risks. CI Lee AH Haims EP Monico JA Brink HP Forman, Radiology 2004 231 393 8 10.1148/radiol.2312030767 15031431
16. Making the best use of a department of clinical radiology: guidelines for doctors. RCR - Royal College of Radiology, 4 1998
17. Radiation protection 118: referral guidelines for imaging. European Commission, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2001 http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radioprotection/publication/ doc/118_en.pdf (acessed 30 Sep 2004)
18. Linea guida Agenzia Servizi Sanitari Regionali e Istituto Superiore Sanità sulla diagnostica per immagini. Italian Health Ministry Medical Imaging Guidelines, 2004 http://www.sirm.org/professione/pdf_lineeguida/ linee_diag_x_img.pdf
19. American College of Radiology white paper on radiation dose in medicine. ES Amis Jr PF Butler KE Applegate SB Birnbaum LF Brateman JM Hevezi FA Mettler RL Morin MJ Pentecost GG Smith KJ Strauss RK Zeman American College of Radiology, J Am Coll Radiol 2007 4 272 84 10.1016/j.jacr.2007.03.002 17467608
20. Societé Française de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire. Informations du public. SFBMN, http://www.sfbmn.org/pub/index. htm (accessed 4 Sep 2004)
21. Cumulative patient effective dose in cardiology. G Bedetti N Botto MG Andreassi C Traino E Vano E Picano, Br J Radiol 2008 88
22. Issues regarding radiation dosage of cardiac nuclear and radiography procedures. RC Thompson SJ Cullom, J Nucl Cardiol 2006 13 1 19 23 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2005.11.004 16464713
23. Code of federal regulations. Title 45: public welfare. Part 46 - protection of human subjects. Office for Protection from Research Risks, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health 1991 http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm (accessed 30 Sep 2004)
24. Stress echocardiography: a historical perspective. E Picano, Am J Med 2003 114 126 30 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01427-4 12586232
25. Imaging strategies to reduce the risk of radiation in CT studies, including selective substitution with MRI. RC Semelka DM Armao J Elias Jr W Huda, J Magn Reson Imaging 2007 25 900 9 10.1002/jmri.20895 17457809
26. Leading the elephant out of the corner: the future of health care: presidential address at the American Heart Association 2006 scientific sessions. RJ Gibbons, Circulation 2007 115 2221 30 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.182064 17452620
27. A gatekeeper for the gatekeeper: inappropriate referrals to stress echocardiography. E Picano E Pasanisi J Brown TH Marwick, Am Heart J 2007 154 285 290 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.04.032 17643578
28. The appropriateness imperative. RF Redberg, Am Heart J 2007 154 201 202 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.05.006 17643564