Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 128(4):387-388; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn070
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Patient dose studies: what should be reported?
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Surveys of radiation doses to patients from radiology investigations have been performed widely by hospital departments for over 20 years. Much of the useful work has been done and further research is required. However, the number of papers on patient dosimetry submitted to this journal has increased rapidly in recent years, and the amount of new information contained in many manuscripts has often been limited. If all submissions continue to be accepted without a limit on the scope, this will result in a substantial amount of duplicate information being published and lead to a bias in the content of