Quality Control in the 3DQ Lab

The Purpose of Quality Control (QC) in a 3DQ Lab setting is to minimize human errors. By doing this you effectively improve productivity and overall efficiency.

In our Lab we have implemented a program with the following criteria:

• Managers along with Technologists that exhibited low repeat/error rates are eligible to QC all protocols including those with measurements.

Peer review (QC) of cases without measurements is based on the following criteria:

• Technologist has processed at least 10 studies of the protocol being QC’d.
• Technologist has no errors/repeats on the last 5 exams of the protocol being QC’d.
• Technologist must have processed at least 1 exam of the protocol being QC’d in the last 12 months.
• Exams can only be assigned a repeat/error by a Manager. Cases in question require Manager over read.

To reduce our repeat rate we have implemented the following:

• One on One Training
• PACS Review Sessions and Focused Training Sessions
• Attending Conferences
• Attending Read Out Sessions with Radiologists.

The QC checklist below is a guide for anyone to use when performing QC on cases processed in the 3DQ Lab: