Reviews of maladministration
reports in the Australian Radiation
Incident Register have led to
changes being recommended.
Published in the Medical Journal
of Australia, researchers led
by Westmead Hospital nuclear
medicine and ultrasound physician
associate professor George Larcos,
reviewed reports from 2007 to
2011 and found that the estimated
rate of maladministration
incidences was 5.8 per 100,000,
with roughly half arising from an
incorrect radiopharmaceutical
being prepared or dispensed.
Other causes included
mistakenly injecting the wrong
radiopharmaceutical due to
inattention at 18.1% and injecting
an incorrect patient at 8.7%.
The risk to patients was low but
the pattern of errors highlight
that certain tasks require greater
attention & further research the
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