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Figure 1.
The “Home Page”
for the Site permits
navigation to the
pre-formatted “Risk
Statements” as well
as to the “Risk
Statement
Computer” for
customized
statements. A
tutorial is also
provided, as well as
instructions for
replacing outdated
statements with the
modified statements.
Figure 2.
A typical Radiation Risk
Statement generated by the
ASP application. The
“boiler-plate” template text
is merged with the
calculated results of
comparing the EDE to a
given benchmark. The
completed statement is
displayed in the user’s Web
browser, and can be “cut
and pasted” into the “Risks
and Discomforts” section of
a consent form document.
Figure 3.
The on-line form is suitable
for those situations where
more than one procedure,
perhaps involving multiple
modalities, is employed in
the protocol. The EDEs for
individual studies are
separately calculated and
then added to yield a total
EDE. This is compared to
the benchmark and a
customized radiation risk
statement is created.
Number of Statement File Accesses
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
June
August
Oct
Month (2000)
Figure 4.
Dec
Distribution of Statement Downloads
4%
4%
CT
15%
5%
Chest X-Ray
Adult Risk Computer
6%
Nuclear Medicine
13%
6%
Skel./Extr. X-Ray
PET
Cardiac Cath/EP/Angioplast
10%
Other X-ray
13%
DEXA
Peds Risk Computer
12%
12%
Other Fluoroscopy
Figure 5.