3 research outputs found
Información de medicamentos a la población desde el Servicio de Farmacia a través de Internet
Objectives: To describe and discuss the work of a Pharmacy
Department for the health-care portal www.viatusalud.com.
Methods: Using a web portal, a Pharmacy Department develops
and updates a vademecum on drugs, and answers enquiries
by end-users.
Results: On December 31, 2002 more than 750 records on
drugs were available, and 3030 enquiries had been answered.
Conclusions: With this drug information and online enquiry
service, our Pharmacy Department helps meet the demand of
health-care information posed by the community and by patients
previously seen at Clínica Universitaria. In addition, it allows areas
of improvement to be detected in the information to be offered to
patients fron a Pharmacy Department, and represents a tertiary
source of information for health-care professionals
Información de medicamentos a la población desde el Servicio de Farmacia a través de Internet
Objectives: To describe and discuss the work of a Pharmacy
Department for the health-care portal www.viatusalud.com.
Methods: Using a web portal, a Pharmacy Department develops
and updates a vademecum on drugs, and answers enquiries
by end-users.
Results: On December 31, 2002 more than 750 records on
drugs were available, and 3030 enquiries had been answered.
Conclusions: With this drug information and online enquiry
service, our Pharmacy Department helps meet the demand of
health-care information posed by the community and by patients
previously seen at Clínica Universitaria. In addition, it allows areas
of improvement to be detected in the information to be offered to
patients fron a Pharmacy Department, and represents a tertiary
source of information for health-care professionals
Significant dose reduction is feasible in FDG PET/CT protocols without compromising diagnostic quality
Purpose: To reduce the radiation dose to patients by optimizing oncological FDG PET/CT protocols.
Methods: The baseline PET/CT protocol in our institution for oncological PET/CT examinations consisted of the administration of 5.18 MBq/kg of FDG and a CT acquisition with a reference current-time product of 120 mAs. In 2016, FDG activity was reduced to 4.44 and 3.70 MBq/kg and reference CT current-time-product was reduced to 100 and 80 mAs. 322 patients scanned with different protocols were retrospectively evaluated. For each patient, effective dose was calculated. The overall image quality was subjectively rated by the referring physician on a 4-point scale (IQ score: 1 excellent, 2 good, 3 poor but interpretable, 4 poor not interpretable). Image quality was quantitatively evaluated measuring noise in the liver.
Results: CT Results: Effective dose was progressively reduced from 9.5 ± 2.8 to 8.0 ± 2.3 and 6.2 ± 1.5 mSv (p 2) did not increase. PET Results: Effective dose was gradually reduced from 6.5 ± 1.4 to 5.7 ± 1.3 and 5.0 ± 1.0 mSv (p < 0.001). Average dose reduction was 23.4%. IQ score (p < 0.05) and noise (p < 0.001) significantly degraded for lower activity protocols. However, all images with reduced activity were scored as interpretable (IQ score ≤ 3).
Conclusions: A significant radiation dose reduction of 28.7% was reached. Despite a slight reduction in image quality, the new regime was successfully implemented with readers reporting unchanged clinical confidence