References for the RANZCR Accreditation Standards for Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Version 7.0

1. Australian and New Zealand Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine Inc. (ANZAPNM). Standards for Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Practices. Current version.
   
   
2. RANZCR. Guidelines for medical practitioners performing and interpreting diagnostic ultrasound. Intercollegiate consensus statement. June 1998.
   
   
3. IRSA Guidelines for Credentialling for Interventional Radiology. November 2003.
   
   
4. ANZBMS, ANZAPNM, RANZCR, ACPSEM. Accreditation Guidelines for Bone Densitometry.
   
   
5. RANZCR. Position on Teleradiology. Nov 2001.
   
   
6. RANZCR. Intravenous contrast media guidelines. August 2001.
   
   
7. RANZCR. Metformin hydrochloride and intravenous contrast media guidelines. February 2005.
   
   
8. RANZCR. A Doctor's Duty to Warn. August 2000.
   
   
9. RANZCR. Guidelines for Diagnostic Ultrasound Services. June 1998.
   
   
10. RANZCR. Continuing Professional Development information manual for diagnostic radiology. Current triennium.
    
    
11. Medicare Benefits Schedule book. Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Current version.
    http://www.health.gov.au/pubs/mbs/index.htm
    
    
12. Australasian Sonographer Accreditation Registry. Infomation Brochure and Application booklet. June 2001.
    Available from the College office or at http://www.asar.com.au
    
    
13. RANZCR. Consensus statement on the best use of diagnostic ultrasound in obstetric practice. June 1998.
    
    
14. Craig AR et al. ACPSEM Position Paper: Recommendations for a mammography quality assurance program. Appendix 1: Standards for Facility Quality Control Procedures. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 2001, 24:123-126.
    
    
15. Craig AR et al. ACPSEM Position Paper: Recommendations for a mammography quality assurance program. Appendix 2: Standards for Mammography System Performance and medical Physics Testing. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 2001, 24:127-129.
    
16. Och JG et al. Acceptance testing of magnetic resonance imaging systems: Report of AAPM nuclear magnetic resonance task group no.6. Medical Physics, 1992; 19:217-229.
    
    
17. Price, RR et al. Quality assurance methods and phantoms for magnetic resonance imaging: Report of AAPM nuclear magnetic resonance task group no.1. Medical Physics, 1990; 17:287-295.
    
    
18. Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Recommendations for limiting exposure to ionizing radiation (1995) (Guidance note [NOHSC:3022(1995)]) and National Standard for limiting occupational exposure to ionizing radiation [NOHSC:1013(1995)]. Radiation Protection Series No, Republished March 2002, ARPANSA.
    http://www.arpansa.gov.au/rhs_pubs.htm
    
    
19. Safety guidelines for magnetic resonance diagnostic facilities (1991), Radiation Health Series No. 34, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.
    http://www.arpansa.gov.au/rhs_pubs.htm
    
    
20. Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). Recommendations on minimum facilities for safe anaesthesia practice outside operation suites (T2). 2000
    http://www.anzca.edu.au/publications/profdocs/technical/T2_2000.htm
    
    
21. Australian Department of Health and Ageing, Infection control in the health care setting: Guidelines for the prevention of transmission of infectious diseases. January 2004.
    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content//icg-guidelines-index.htm
    
    
22. ACR Practice Guideline for Communication: Diagnostic radiology. ACR Standards. American College of Radiology. 2001, Effective: 2002.
    http://www.acr.org/frames/f-publications.html

23. Guidelines for Doctors on Providing Patient Access to Medical Records.  Australian Medical Association.  1997 as amended 2002..
    http://www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/doc/SHED-5FTVCR
    
    
24. Clinical indicators – A users’ manual: Radiology indicators, Version 2.  The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, 1998-2003
    http://www.achs.org.au/ (you can order it from here)
    
    
25. IRSA. Thresholds and Success Rates (current version)
    
    
26. RANZCR/ANZSNR/IRSA Guidelines for Accreditation and Credentialling in Interventional Neuroradiology. November 2004
    
    
27. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Applications for approval for use of AVOA's.
    http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/authpres.htm
    

28. RANZCR MRI Safety Guidelines, RANZCR, August 2005 (http://www.ranzcr.edu.au/documents/detail.cfm?ophileEntry=103&ophileLibrary=29&ophileReturnpage=list.cfm&llLetter=All)
    
    
29. Medical management of severe anaphylactoid and anaphylactic reactions. Australian Prescribers (current version).
    
    
30. Guidelines For Disinfection of Transvaginal Transducers, Guideline B2, ASUM, 1999, Revised:  March 2005. www.asum.com.au
    
    
31. ACR Technical Standard for Digital Image Data Management, American College of Radiology, 1998. Revised 2001, Effective 2002 http://www.acr.org/s_acr/sec.asp?CID=541&DID=14202
    
    
32. Assessment of Display Performance for Medical Imaging Systems, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 18 Imaging Informatics Subcommittee, AAPM, Draft, April 2005 http://www.aapm.org/pubs/reports
    
    
33. ‘ASUM Statements Relating to Ultrasound Safety’, www.asum.org.au

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