Clinical Audit Guidelines

Based on the EC medical exposure directive 97/43/EURATOM which introduced the concept of Clinical Audit for the assessment of medical radiological practices, in 2007 the European Commission launched a project to review the status of implementation of clinical audits in Member States and to prepare European Guidance on clinical audits. The results of this project as well as the accompanying guidelines are now available online: European Commission Guidelines on Clinical Audit.

Next steps

The ESR Subcommittee on Audit and Standards will analyse the Guidelines based on the summary document prepared by its chairperson, Dr. Jane Adam.

The National Radiological Societies will be approached to get feedback on the current status of clinical audit and to the feasibility of implementing the guidelines in their own countries.