Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Any per­son who pre­scribes or per­forms pro­ced­ures must take in­to ac­count ex­ist­ing dia­gnost­ic in­form­a­tion and the case his­tory in or­der to avoid un­ne­ces­sary ra­di­ation ex­pos­ures.

² Any per­son who pre­scribes pro­ced­ures must es­tab­lish and doc­u­ment an in­dic­a­tion and for­ward this to the phys­i­cian per­form­ing the pro­ced­ure.

³Hos­pit­als, ra­di­ology centres and re­fer­rers must pre­scribe pro­ced­ures in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent state of sci­ence and tech­no­logy. This is re­flec­ted in par­tic­u­lar by re­fer­ral guidelines based on na­tion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al guidelines or re­com­mend­a­tions.

⁴Each ap­plic­a­tion must be jus­ti­fied in ad­vance by the phys­i­cian per­form­ing the pro­ced­ure, tak­ing in­to ac­count the cur­rent state of sci­ence and tech­no­logy, the in­dic­a­tion and the char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the in­di­vidu­al in­volved.

⁵A dia­gnost­ic or thera­peut­ic pro­ced­ure which is not jus­ti­fied in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 28 may non­ethe­less, de­pend­ing on the cir­cum­stances, be jus­ti­fied as a spe­cif­ic, in­di­vidu­al ap­plic­a­tion. This must be doc­u­mented on a case-by-case basis, with the reas­ons stated, by the phys­i­cian per­form­ing the pro­ced­ure.