{"id":1749,"date":"2014-07-03T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2014-07-03T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:57:43","slug":"the-right-exam-the-right-way-the-right-radiation-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"The Right Exam, The Right Way, The Right Radiation Dose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Rexford, along with Rosemary Gibson, Stephen Smith,\u00a0 John Santa and other supporters of national\u00a0 patient safety efforts,\u00a0 are contributors to an article just published in the March, 2014 JournalPatientSafety.com:<\/p>\n<p>The Right Exam, The Right Way, The Right Radiation Dose<\/p>\n<p>The March, 2014 issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/journalpatientsafety\/Citation\/publishahead\/An_Appeal_for_Safe_and_Appropriate_Imaging_of.99740.aspx\">JournalPatientSafety.com<\/a> features an article on the overexposure of ionizing radiation to our pediatric population.\u00a0 This problem has urgency in that the findings are uncontroversial and patients cannot wait for changes to passively diffuse through the system.\u00a0 Through the engagement of patients, public organizations, and medical professionals in this movement, the contributors to this commentary seek to bring about that accreditation of all American hospitals and advanced diagnostic imaging facilities require these 3 practices: \u00a0The Right Exam, The Right Way, The Right Radiation Dose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Rexford, along with Rosemary Gibson, Stephen Smith,\u00a0 John Santa and other supporters of national\u00a0 patient safety efforts,\u00a0 are contributors to an article just published in the March, 2014 JournalPatientSafety.com: <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1749\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[689,447,312,688],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-journalpatientsafety","tag-pediatric","tag-radiation","tag-radiation-overexposure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}