Delegation of Tasks in Radiology to Allied Health Personnel

A systematic review of evidence about extended roles for allied health professionals

“…18 On balance, these papers concurred that radiographers appear able to be trained in both diagnostic and therapeutic skills to a level of performance that is similar to medical colleagues and the performance was acceptable to patients after postgraduate training. [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] While a number of studies were found exploring this question, synthesis was restricted due to the heterogeneity of design and outcome measures used.…”

“…Kappa statistic (0.4) indicated fair agreement between radiographers and radiologists, although radiographers found to still 'over report' (false positives). Parker et al 18 Survey A survey of 262 radiologists in five US states regarding delegation of 26 different radiologic tasks to non-physician personnel. In all, 25% consultants agreed with delegating injection of contrast materials to non-physician personnel, 40% supported delegating fluoroscopy and 25% with delegated interpretive tasks to non-medics.…”