TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality Assurance in Interventional Radiology
T2 - Post-procedural Care
AU - Siddiqi, Madheea
AU - Jazmati, Tarek
AU - Kisza, Piotr
AU - Abujudeh, Hani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Purpose of Review: To review best practices to improve the quality of patient service in the field of interventional radiology after performing the procedure. Recent Findings: The aim of this paper is to highlight aspects of post-procedural care such as effective communication, post-procedural management of the patient, handling of obtained specimens, post-procedural follow-up, tracking outcomes, and education to assist the interventionalist in providing comprehensive quality post-procedural care. Summary: Post-procedural communication, follow-up, and outcome tracking are essential elements in the quality assurance of an Interventional Radiology service.
AB - Purpose of Review: To review best practices to improve the quality of patient service in the field of interventional radiology after performing the procedure. Recent Findings: The aim of this paper is to highlight aspects of post-procedural care such as effective communication, post-procedural management of the patient, handling of obtained specimens, post-procedural follow-up, tracking outcomes, and education to assist the interventionalist in providing comprehensive quality post-procedural care. Summary: Post-procedural communication, follow-up, and outcome tracking are essential elements in the quality assurance of an Interventional Radiology service.
KW - Follow-up
KW - Interventional Radiology clinic
KW - Patient education
KW - Patient-centered care
KW - Quality assurance
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U2 - 10.1007/s40134-019-0311-2
DO - 10.1007/s40134-019-0311-2
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85060959917
SN - 2167-4825
VL - 7
JO - Current Radiology Reports
JF - Current Radiology Reports
IS - 1
M1 - 3
ER -