[Mapping of radiologic risks: community and hospital aspects. Experience of a local socio-health unit].
A census was made of radiation-generating equipment and radioactive sources used for various purposes in the Local Health Unit of Rho, a small town in the Province of Milan, Northern Italy. Medical and industrial use of radiation equipment was found to be widespread, with a greater number of health care workers exposed occupationally but higher average levels of exposure in industry. In hospitals, independently of the formal classification, relatively higher exposure occurs among personnel operating in departments where radiological techniques have been recently introduced, due to a greater need for the personnel to operate close to the X-ray generator tube or presumably to an underestimation of a risk which is historically well known to radiologists.
Macchi
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Petazzi
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D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000209:etiology*; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital; D012307:Risk Factors
Mappatura dei rischi radiologici: aspetti territoriali ed ospedalieri. Esperienza di una U.S.S.L.