PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fahey, Frederic H.
AU  - Bom, Henry Hee-Seung
AU  - Chiti, Arturo
AU  - Choi, Yun Young
AU  - Huang, Gang
AU  - Lassmann, Michael
AU  - Laurin, Norman
AU  - Mut, Fernando
AU  - Nuñez-Miller, Rodolfo
AU  - O’Keeffe, Darin
AU  - Pradhan, Prasanta
AU  - Scott, Andrew M.
AU  - Song, Shaoli
AU  - Soni, Nischal
AU  - Uchiyama, Mayuki
AU  - Vargas, Luis
TI  - Standardization of Administered Activities in Pediatric Nuclear Medicine: A Report of the First Nuclear Medicine Global Initiative Project, Part 2—Current Standards and the Path Toward Global Standardization
AID  - 10.2967/jnumed.115.169714
DP  - 2016 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
PG  - 1148--1157
VI  - 57
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/7/1148.short
4100  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/7/1148.full
SO  - J Nucl Med2016 Jul 01; 57
AB  - The Nuclear Medicine Global Initiative (NMGI) was formed in 2012 and consists of 13 international organizations with direct involvement in nuclear medicine. The underlying objectives of the NMGI are to promote human health by advancing the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, encourage global collaboration in education, and harmonize procedure guidelines and other policies that ultimately lead to improvements in quality and safety in the field throughout the world. For its first project, the NMGI decided to consider the issues involved in the standardization of administered activities in pediatric nuclear medicine. It was decided to divide the final report of this project into 2 parts. Part 1 was published in this journal in the spring of 2015. This article presents part 2 of the final report. It discusses current standards for administered activities in children and adolescents that have been developed by various professional organizations. It also presents an evaluation of the current practice of pediatric nuclear medicine specifically with regard to administered activities as determined by an international survey of 313 nuclear medicine clinics and centers from 29 countries. Lastly, it provides recommendations for a path toward global standardization of the administration of radiopharmaceuticals in children.