It’s a rather remarkable turn-around story… For those who don’t know there’s a patient-safety organization, called The Leapfrog Group, that grades hospitals on their patient safety. Six years ago, in 2015, the JPS hospital (a county-owned hospital in Ft. Worth, TX) received a “D” grade on patient safety. This year, in 2021, the same hospital […]
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MRI Root-Cause Analysis (Twentieth Anniversary of Colombini Accident)
In order to recognize MRI safety weaknesses at any given site, you have to study how MRI accidents and injuries occur. Anybody with a printout of accreditation standards can be a mock-surveyor and run through a checklist, but does that person know if the checklist really represents MRI safety risks, or just check-boxes? This year, […]
Continue readingThe MRI Accident Chart (2000 – 2020)
This is the chart that we think depicts the recent state of MRI safety by looking at MRI accident rates. The data -or, more specifically, the direct deduction that it supports- makes some people downright hostile because it directly refutes the pervasive MRI public relations campaign… “MRI is the safe modality.” To be clear, MRI […]
Continue readingMRI Expert Witness / Consulting
If there’s a concern about the interpretation of an MRI study, of course you’d call on an expert witness in radiologic interpretation… a radiologist. But what if there’s a question about how MRI safety processes worked (or didn’t work) in terms of preventing an injury (like a flying object zipping at the MRI scanner, and […]
Continue readingMRI Safety Consultant Services
Hello, and welcome to Gilk Radiology Consultants (GRC)! Our company is dedicated to helping improve both patient access to MRI, and the safety of MRI, and we do this through a variety of ways. We help MRI providers (with education, training, facility planning, and policy / practice review). We help legal and insurance professionals (with […]
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