QUALITY IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

• Part 1 Laws, standard and guidelines: From ISO to ISO HealthCare
1. Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-ICH and scientific integrity
2. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)/Farmacopee
3. Relation between different societies in relation to guidelines (Dutch Society of Nuclear Medicine, EANM, SNM)
4. KEW/Euratom (in Europe and internationally)
5. Wet op de dierproeven (internationally)
6. International laws (e.g. Registration laws of clinicians, farmacists etc)
7. Privacy laws
8. Contract research and investigator driven research
• Part 2 Radiation safety: Environment
9. Personnel and public people
10. Patients
11. Waste management/Decommissioning of the cyclotron
12. Terroristic threats
• Part 3: Equipment: Medical devices
13. PET/CT and image quality
14. PET/MRI
15. Micro SPECT/PET
16. Standardization
17. Service quality, periodic measurements
18. Annotations
19. Data management/ computer aided diagnostics/Expert systems
• Part 4: Management instruments : EFQM
20. VMS
21. HTA/HFMEA/Risk management systems
22. Quality controls of cameras
23. Quality aspects in daily management in nuclear medicine
24. No shows with particular emphasis on nuclear medicine
• Part 5: Organisations: Medical Ethical Committees and nuclear medicine
25. Animal Ethical Committees and nuclear medicine
26. Quality visits - the Dutch example (Dutch Society of Nuclear Medicine)
27. Quality visits - the EANM example
28. Quality visits - the SNM example
29. IAEA – training
30. School for Nuclear Medicine – teaching.

This comprehensive textbook provides a state of the art overview of the means by which quality in patient care is ensured within the field of nuclear medicine. Acknowledged experts in the field cover both management aspects, such as laws, standards, guidelines, patient safety, management instruments, and organisations, and specific issues, including radiation safety and equipment. Quality in Nuclear Medicine not only presents detailed information on the topics discussed but should also stimulate further discussion and offer an important tool to all professionals in the field of nuclear medicine and their stakeholders. Readers will find that the book provides a wealth of excellent guidance and reflects the pioneering role of nuclear medicine in advancing different aspects of quality within medicine.

Features
• Equips readers to ensure quality in nuclear medicine by providing a state of the art overview of the field
• Reviews diverse management aspects, such as laws, standards, guidelines, patient safety, management instruments, and organisations
• Covers specific issues, including radiation safety and equipment

Author
Andor W.J.M. Glaudemans, University Medical Center Groningen, Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Groningen, The NetherlandsRudi A.J.O. Dierckx, University Medical Center Groningen, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging,Groningen, The NetherlandsJitze Medema, University Medical Center Groningen, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Groningen, The NetherlandsAnnie K. van Zanten, University Medical Center Groningen, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Groningen, The NetherlandsC.T.B. Kees Ahaus, Dutch Inst. for Healthcare Improvement, Utrecht, The Netherlands