Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

1 The pur­pose of clin­ic­al audits is to en­sure that med­ic­al ex­pos­ures are jus­ti­fied and op­tim­ised in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent state of sci­ence and tech­no­logy, and that the qual­ity and out­come of pa­tient care are con­tinu­ously im­proved.

² Clin­ic­al audits in­volve sys­tem­at­ic­ally ex­amin­ing pa­tient- and per­son­nel-re­lated pro­cesses for dia­gnost­ic and thera­peut­ic pro­ced­ures in­volving ion­ising ra­di­ation, and com­par­ing them with the cur­rent state of sci­ence and tech­no­logy.

³ The FOPH may re­quire the li­cence hold­er to un­der­go a clin­ic­al audit for the fol­low­ing med­ic­al ra­di­ation ap­plic­a­tions every five years:

a.

com­puted tomo­graphy;

b.

nuc­le­ar medi­cine;

c.

ra­di­ation on­co­logy;

d.

flu­oro­scopy-guided in­ter­ven­tion­al dia­gnost­ic and thera­peut­ic pro­ced­ures.