Table 2.
Work history characteristics among radiologic technologists who ever performed or assisted with fluoroscopically-guided interventional (FGI) procedures from before 1970 to 2009,US Radiologic Technologists Study
| Ever performed or assisted with FGI procedures (N=12,571) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | N | % |
| Certification year as a technologist | ||
| < 1960 | 678 | 5.4 |
| 1960 – 1970 | 3417 | 27.2 |
| 1970 – 1980 | 7592 | 60.4 |
| > 1980 | 873 | 6.9 |
| Unknown | 11 | 0.1 |
| Year first worked as a technologist | ||
| < 1960 | 1096 | 8.7 |
| 1960 – 1969 | 3873 | 30.8 |
| 1970 – 1979 | 7092 | 56.4 |
| ≥ 1980 | 275 | 2.2 |
| Unknown | 235 | 1.9 |
| Duration of working as a technologist | ||
| < 5 | 409 | 3.3 |
| 5 – 10 | 1169 | 9.3 |
| 10 – 20 | 2585 | 20.6 |
| ≥ 20 | 7598 | 60.4 |
| Unknown | 810 | 6.4 |
| Years of performing or assisting FGI procedures | ||
| < 5 | 1644 | 13.1 |
| 5 – 10 | 2484 | 19.8 |
| 10 – 15 | 1807 | 14.4 |
| ≥ 20 | 4928 | 39.2 |
| Unknown | 1708 | 13.6 |
| Working status as a FGI procedure technologist | ||
| Retired when they completed the survey | 10824 | 86.1 |
| Currently working as rad tech | 1397 | 11.1 |
| Unknown | 350 | 2.8 |
| Working with | ||
| Diagnostic FG procedure | 6608 | 52.7 |
| Therapeutic FG procedures | 10726 | 85.6 |
| Both | 5907 | 47.1 |
- : Not available