The Commission in conjunction with clinician experts and major clinical groups has developed protocols to support correct matching of patients and their care in the specific areas of radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and oral surgery.
The protocols, together with fact sheets and FAQs are available below:
Fact Sheet
Protocols
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in CT and MRI (PDF 655 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in General Radiology and Ultrasound (PDF 665 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in Interventional Radiology (PDF 657 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in Nuclear Medicine (PDF 646 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in Radiation Therapy Simulation (PDF 674 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in Radiation Therapy Treatment (PDF 678 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure in Oral Surgery (PDF 672 KB)
Frequently Asked Questions
- Ensuring correct patient, correct site, correct procedure in Radiation Therapy (PDF 326 KB)
- Ensuring correct patient, correct site, correct procedure in Radiology (PDF 322 KB)
- Ensuring correct patient, correct site, correct procedure in Oral Surgery (PDF 665 KB)
- Ensuring correct patient, correct site, correct procedure in Nuclear Medicine (PDF 615 KB)
These protocols have been adapted with kind permission from protocols originally developed by NSW Health.
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