Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy

摘要: Part I Quality Management and Improvement A Perspective on Safety in Radiotherapy as Viewed Lived by the Patient Management: An Overview Development Operation of a Program: Case Study Methodologies for Lean Thinking Process Control Access to Care: Perspectives from Private Healthcare Environment Public The Cost Quality: Health Technology Assessment Past, Present, Future Physics II Managing Error Issues Risk Tools Near-Miss Reporting: View Europe North America Impact Cultural Biases Primer High Reliability Organizing Errors Information Flow Identifying Reducing New Paradigm Radiation Therapy Based Analysis Brachytherapy III Methods Assure Improve Medical Indicators Terminology Examples Structure, Process, Outcome Role Audits: IAEA Peer Review: Physician's Australia Physicist's Credentialing Certification Approach Oncology Practice Accreditation Clinical Trials: Assurance Vendor's IV People Leadership Human Factors Engineering: Application Changing Oncologist Physicist Staffing Training Practical Aspects V CT Simulation MRI MRS Image Registration, Fusion, Segmentation 4D Treatment Planning Systems External Beam Linear Accelerator: Resource Commissioning Implementation Use Cobalt: Superficial Orthovoltage: Computer-Controlled Intensity-Modulated Volumetric Arc Four-Dimensional Combined Delivery Proton Stereotactic Radiosurgery Total Body Irradiation Dose Rate Electronic Technical Guidance Documents VI Control: Equipment Dosimetry Phantoms Conventional Simulators Computed Tomography, Positron Emission Magnetic Resonance Imaging Stand-Alone Accelerators Accelerator-Based MV kV Elekta Multileaf Collimator Varian Siemens Integrated Systems: Tomotherapy GammaKnife CyberKnife Localization Ultrasound Transponder Localization: Surface Mobile Electron Intraoperative High-Dose-Rate VII Patient-Specific Plan MU Checks Monte Carlo Setup Motion Skin Marrow Collimator-Based Compensator-Based Cranial Low-Dose-Rate with Unsealed Sources Intravascular