Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety.

Fernando Calamante; Bernd Ittermann; Emanuel Kanal; MR Inter-Society Working Group on Safety; David Norris

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Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety.

July 27, 2016

Calamante F, Ittermann B, Kanal E, et al. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016;44(5):1067-1069.

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Magnetic resonance safety events can lead to serious patient harm. This commentary provides recommendations from expert consensus to help organizations design and implement a range of magnetic resonance imaging services. The authors also define three levels of management responsibilities required to support those recommendations in a various settings.

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