Radimetrics radiation dose management solution

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) International CT Dose Registry includes 6.65 million CT exams assembled from across 160 hospital and imaging facilities [6 (link), 7 (link)]. The registry was created with funding from the University of California Office of the President, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and includes data from health care institutions that used Radimetrics Radiation Dose Management Solution (Bayer HealthCare, Whippany, NJ) and expressed interest in collaborating with UCSF on radiation-related research. The UCSF Institutional Review Board approved the registry study and waived informed consent. Collaborating institutions either approved the study locally or relied on UCSF approval.

This study was completed using data assembled in the University of California, San Francisco International CT Dose Registry. This dataset has been used and described in previous publications, as have the means by which it was collected [3 (link), 9 (link)–11 (link)]. In short, the registry prospectively collected data from 162 diverse imaging facilities and hospitals from 7 countries including 20 US states, including academic, public, and private institutions, outpatient, emergency department, and in-patient settings, trauma centers, and cancer hospitals. Most of the data are from the US All contributing institutions used Radimetrics™ Radiation Dose Management Solution (Bayer HealthCare). The University of California, San Francisco Institutional Review Board approved the study, providing a waiver for individual informed consent, and collaborating institutions obtained IRB approval locally, or relied on University of California, San Francisco approval.