An investigation of filing, retrieval and delivering radiography documents to the applicants in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1997

Social changes have cajoled the need to the updated information. These information majorly obtained from medical records of patients, are characteristically very important. Radiographies as part of medical records of patients, are considered as medical documents due to their worth and efficiency. In the present analytical-descriptive study, conducted in training-treatment centers of Tehran in 1997 through completed questionnaires, the filing, retrieval and delivering of radiography documents to the applicants is evaluated. Post comparison with standards of American college of radiology indicated that these documents are not filed in proper conditions and the same rules are not followed in delivering them.