Mich. Admin. Code R. 333.5685 - Responsible individuals

Rule 685.

Responsibility for the quality assurance program and for each of its elements shall be assigned to the following individuals who are qualified for their assignments:

(a) Lead stereotactic breast biopsy physician. The facility shall identify a lead stereotactic breast biopsy physician who shall be responsible for ensuring that the quality assurance program meets all requirements of R 333.5684 to R 333.5697. No other individual shall be assigned or shall retain responsibility for quality assurance tasks unless the lead stereotactic breast biopsy physician has determined that the individual is qualified to perform the assignment.

(b) Stereotactic breast biopsy physicians. All stereotactic breast biopsy physicians conducting stereotactic breast biopsy procedures for the facility shall follow the facilitys procedures for corrective action when the images they are asked to interpret are of poor quality.

(c) Medical physicist. The facility shall have the services of a medical physicist available to survey stereotactic breast biopsy equipment and oversee the equipment-related quality assurance practices of the facility. The medical physicist shall be responsible for performing the surveys and stereotactic breast biopsy equipment evaluations and providing the facility with the reports described in R 333.5693 and R 333.5694.

(d) Quality control technologist. Responsibility for tasks within the quality assurance program not assigned to the lead stereotactic breast biopsy physician or the medical physicist shall be assigned to a quality control technologist. The tasks are to be performed by the quality control technologist, but may be delegated to other qualified personnel by the quality control technologist. When other personnel are utilized for these tasks, the quality control technologist shall ensure that they were completed in compliance with R 333.5687.

Notes

Mich. Admin. Code R. 333.5685

2016 MR 10, Eff. 5/25/2016

An obvious error in R 325.5685 was corrected at the request of the promulgating agency, pursuant to Section 56 of 1969 PA 306, as amended by 2000 PA 262, MCL 24.256. The rule containing the error was published in Michigan Register, 2016 MR 10. The memorandum requesting the correction was published in Michigan Register, 2016 MR 16