Safety Guidelines
1. Quality Improvement Guidelines
for Recording Patient Radiation Dose in the Medical Record
Donald L. Miller, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Louis K. Wagner, PhD,
John Cardella, MD, Timothy W.I. Clark, MD, MSc, Calvin D.
Neithamer, Jr, MD, Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Timothy L. Swan, MD,
Richard B. Towbin, MD, Kenneth S. Rholl, MD, and David Sacks, MD,
for the SIR Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2004; 15:423–429
2. Quality Improvement Guidelines for Preventing
Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person
Errors: Application of the Joint Commission
"Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site,
Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery" to the
Practice of Interventional Radiology
John F. Angle, MD, Albert A. Nemcek, Jr, MD, Alan M. Cohen, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD,
Clement J. Grassi, MD, Horacio R. D'Agostino, MD, Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Sanjoy Kundu, MD,
Robert B. Osnis, MD, Dheeraj K. Rajan, MD, Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Timothy L. Swan, MD,
Suresh Vedantham, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the SIR Standards Division
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2008; 19:1145-1151.
3. Recommendations for the Implementation of Joint Commission Guidelines for Labeling Medications
John D. Statler, MD, Richard B. Towbin, MD, Joseph A. Ronsivalle, DO, Anne Oteham, RN, BSN,
Donald L. Miller, MD, Clement J. Grassi, MD, Daniel B. Brown, MD, Horacio R. D’Agostino, MD,
Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Sanjoy Kundu, MD, Anne C. Roberts, MD, Cindy Kaiser Saiter, NP,
Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Suresh Vedantham, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the
SIR Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:S251–S255.
4. Guidelines for Patient Radiation
Dose Management
Michael S. Stecker, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Richard B. Towbin, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD, Eliseo Vańó, PhD,
Gabriel Bartal, MD, J. Fritz Angle, MD, Christine P. Chao, MD, Alan M. Cohen, MD, Robert G. Dixon, MD,
Kathleen Gross, MSN, RN-BC, CRN, George G. Hartnell, MD, Beth Schueler, PhD, John D. Statler, MD,
Thierry de Bačre, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the SIR Safety and Health Committee and the CIRSE
Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:S263–S273
5. Interventional Fluoroscopy: Reducing Radiation
Risks for Patients and Staff
Donald L. Miller, MD
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:S274