Quality Assurance in Scheduling Nuclear Medicine Examinations

Abstract

Quality assurance of patient care is not simply a matter of scintillation camera quality control, radiopharmaceutical quality control, or radioimmunoassay quality control. A patient’s psychological and physical needs must be included in the overall quality control picture. With effective quality assurance for patient scheduling, a patient’s anxiety can be alleviated, his physical needs can be met, and hospital cost-effectiveness can be maintained.