Individual dosage monitoring results in medical radiation staffs in Guangzhou City,2008-2014 / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the individual external dose level of medical radiation staffs in Guangzhou City.METHODS: The medical radiation staffs of Guangzhou City who conducted individual dose monitoring at Guangdong Province Hospital Center for Occupational Diseases Prevention and Treatment from 2008 to 2014 were selected as study subjects by convenient sampling method.Their individual dosage monitoring data were analyzed.RESULTS: A total of 17 754 person-times were monitored in 7 years.The annual collective effective dose was 10 621.1 person·mSv and the median per capita annual effective dose was 0.21 mSv/a.The per capita annual effective dose in 2008-2012 showed an increasing trend each year( P < 0.05),peaked in 2012,and then decreased in 2013 and 2014( P < 0.05).The per capita annual effective dose of radiology staffs in level Ⅱ medical institutions was higher than that of level Ⅲ medical institutions,level Ⅰ medical institutions and those below level Ⅰ( P < 0.01).The per capita annual effective dose of radiation staffs in level Ⅲ medical institutions was higher than level Ⅰ medical institutions and those below level Ⅰ( P <0.01).The effective monitoring rates of radiation staffs monitored for 4 cycles every year increased with time from 2008 to 2014( P < 0.01).The effective monitoring rate increased with the hospital level( P < 0.01).The per capita annual effective dose of the staffs in radiological diagnosis department was lower than that of clinical nuclear medicine,radiotherapy and interventional radiology( P < 0.01).CONCLUSION: The radiation dose of medical radiation staffs in Guangzhou City was within the national standard limit.Protection should be focused on the the staffs in secondary hospitals,clinical nuclear medicine,radiotherapy and interventional radiology.