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Doctors newspaper online, 18.09.2019
Prevention
After the Federal Office for Radiation Protection reported on illegal offers of X-ray-based early detection, a complaint to the Wettbewerbszentrale has been received for the first time.
By Raimund Schmid
BERLIN / BAD HOMBURG. Several radiological practices, MVZ and clinics offer radiographic screening for private individuals and self-payers. What according to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) not only "unlawful", but therefore and in view of the officially evaluated application "also misleading" . A finding that the German Roentgen Society (DRG) can not and does not want to contradict.
A statement from the "Ärzte Zeitung" states that radiological procedures could "play an important role in the early detection of cancer". However, quality standards for technical and medical implementation are just as essential as "embedding in a comprehensive prevention concept and the establishment of strict criteria for further clarification and treatment in the case of suspected diagnosis".
Offers "outside the legal requirements" to which the Federal Office has now pointed out are "in fact unlawful, misleading and do not stand for a quality-assured, scientifically sound application of imaging techniques," confirms the association.
Also on the part of the professional association of radiologists (BDR) there is "nothing to gloss over", explains its CEO Markus Henkel. The legal situation was "clear", they had repeatedly informed the members that early detection CT without approval Regulation of the Ministry of the Environment are inadmissible and therefore should not be advertised.
In a review article for the BDR on drug advertising law, the Heidelberg medical lawyer Beate Bahner recently dealt with the legal risks of the early detection CT. Without the Ministerial Admission Regulation, this would be a "not medically diagnosed diagnostic measure", which may not be provided for radiation protection.
Here ends the therapy freedom of the radiologist. Violations could possibly even be prosecuted as bodily harm and then also have professional consequences.
Meanwhile, the Center for Combating Unfair Competition received a complaint against a provider of early detection CT immediately after the BfS communication. One can not give any information about how valid this input is, so executive committee member Peter Breun-Goerke. So far, there has been no complaint in this case, this is actually the first. (cw)
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