Project Leader:Team Member
- Dr.Ashwag Alolyan
- Dr.Syed Ghulam
Dr Salem Al Shehri
- Dr Nour Ibrahim,
Dr.Saadia UrRazaq
Mona Alshami
Status
Monitoring
Reason of Initiating QI Project
physician order PET scan without considering medical needs or the risk of radiation to patients many of the radiological exams (“imaging”) performed are unnecessary, increasing health care costs and exposing patients to dangerous radiation.
Impact of The Project on Patients Care
Reduce
overutilization of PET scan requested
for oncology patients by implementing
NCCN Practice guidelines to 50% by April 2018 to Reduce
patient
harm without compromising the patient care as the recommendations was evidence
based , saving
time
on the machine,
save time
of Nuclear
Medicine consultant reading
scan and reduce cost.
Estimated cost reduction 84.000 SR per month
Estimated cost reduction 1.737.000 SR per year
