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The Provision of Interventional Radiology Services in Europe: CIRSE Recommendations

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Interventional Radiology (IR) is an essential part of modern medicine, delivering minimally invasive patient-focused care, which has been proven to be safe and effective in both elective and emergency settings. The aim of this document is to outline the core requirements and standards for the provision of Interventional Radiological services, including training, certification, manpower, and accreditation. The ultimate challenge will be the adoption of these recommendations by different countries and health economies around the world, in turn ensuring equal access to IR treatments for all patients, the appropriate distribution of resources for IR service provision as well as the continued development of safe and high-quality IR services in Europe and beyond.

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The working group for this document would like to thank all those who were involved in its creation, including Dr. Nikolaos Galanakis (Heraklion, Greece) who acted as the Research Assistant for this document.

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  1. Interventional Radiology Unit, Department of Radiology, University Hospital Heraklion, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    Dimitrios Tsetis

  2. Radiology Department, John Radcliff Hospital, Oxford, UK

    Raman Uberoi

  3. Interventional Radiology Unit, Department of Radiological Sciences, Sapienza – University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Fanelli

  4. Interventional Radiology Unit, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Iain Roberston

  5. Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

    Miltiadis Krokidis

  6. Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Otto van Delden

  7. Department for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Boris Radeleff

  8. Diagnostische u. Interventionelle Radiologie/Neuroradiologie, Ev.-Luth. Diakonissenanstalt zu Flensburg – Zentrum für Gesundheit und Diakonie, Flensburg, Germany

    Stefan Müller-Hülsbeck

  9. Interventional Radiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

    Malgorzata Szerbo-Trojanowska

  10. Department of Radiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Michael Lee

  11. Department of Radiology, St George’s Hospital, London, UK

    Robert Morgan & Anna Maria Belli

  12. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Elias Brountzos

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Tsetis, D., Uberoi, R., Fanelli, F. et al. The Provision of Interventional Radiology Services in Europe: CIRSE Recommendations. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 39, 500–506 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-016-1299-0

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