Nuclear medicine (NM) is a medical speciality that uses unsealed radioactive sources involving several handling procedures with some critical points before, during, and after the examination and therapies performed, requiring special attention to the occurrence of a possible accident or incident over the course of the clinical routine. The accidents and incidents in NM can involve actors such as workers, patients, the public or caregivers, and even the environment. Although expected, the number of occurrences and their nature are not well understood due to the absence of a Brazilian reporting tool for incidents or accidents. This paper aims to develop a web-based NM incident and accident notification system named SINMED (NM Notification System). Specific forms were developed in an offline system inhtml5language with an online system interface according to the Google Forms platform. The developed forms were based on existing international notification templates from the the perspective of NM services in operation applying Brazilian regulations.
Keywords: accidents; incidents; notification; nuclear medicine.
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