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Radiation safety and knowledge: what do we know?
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  1. Alaa Abd-Elsayed
  1. Anesthesiology Department, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alaa Abd-Elsayed, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53706, USA; alaaawny{at}hotmail.com

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Abstract

Interventional pain physicians are exposed to radiation while performing different procedures. Provenzano et al 1 conducted a study that aimed at examining the current safety practices and knowledge among interventional pain physicians.

Study findings indicated lack of both knowledge and implementation of evidence-based radiation safety measures.

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  • Contributors AA-E designed and prepared the infographic.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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