Error rates in clinical radiotherapy.

RM Macklis, T Meier, MS Weinhous - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1998 - ascopubs.org
… in clinical radiotherapy to handle these other classes of errors. In contrast, a treatment delivered
using the wrong block tray for a single field would be scored as an error event even if the …

Quality assurance in radiotherapy: evaluation of errors and incidents recorded over a 10 year period

TK Yeung, K Bortolotto, S Cosby, M Hoar… - Radiotherapy and …, 2005 - Elsevier
… include events in which there were no dose errors to patients. … errors did occur during various
stages in radiation therapy, which, if uncorrected, could have led to substantial dose errors

Patient safety in external beam radiotherapy–Guidelines on risk assessment and analysis of adverse error-events and near misses: Introducing the ACCIRAD project

J Malicki, R Bly, M Bulot, JL Godet, A Jahnen… - Radiotherapy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Errors that harm the patient during radiotherapy are very rare, and it is important that we
distinguish between adverse events… treatment—and real errors caused by human or machine …

[HTML][HTML] Errors detected during physics plan review for external beam radiotherapy

FA Siebert, M Hirt, M Delaperrière, J Dunst - Physics and Imaging in …, 2022 - Elsevier
… in the treatment planning process of external beam techniques. The aim of this study was
to investigate errors occurring during physics plan review in external beam radiotherapy. …

[HTML][HTML] Categorizing accident sequences in the external radiotherapy for risk analysis

J Kim - Radiation oncology journal, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… all the events in the calibration were caused by human errors, not … errors in both initiating
events and mitigation: Human errors contributed largely to the occurrences of adverse events (…

Patient safety in external beam radiotherapy, results of the ACCIRAD project: Recommendations for radiotherapy institutions and national authorities on assessing …

J Malicki, R Bly, M Bulot, JL Godet, A Jahnen… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Since the main focus of risk management is to avoid preventable errors (rather than side-effects),
we advocate for the term “adverse error-event”, defined as any adverse event caused …

Lessons learnt from errors in radiotherapy centers

K Asnaashari, S GHOLAMI, HR Khosravi - 2014 - sid.ir
events were pointed out by Radiaon Oncologists. Results: About fifty percent of total 165
detected events were classified as treatment field errors… photon and electron beams. Conclusion…

Improving patient safety in radiotherapy through error reporting and analysis

Ú Findlay, H Best, M Ottrey - Radiography, 2016 - Elsevier
error is weighed against the incidence of error, radiotherapy (RT) may be seen as a safe form
of treatment for cancer. Although error … of the event (classification of radiotherapy errors grid…

Unintended exposure in radiotherapy: identification of prominent causes

M Boadu, MM Rehani - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2009 - Elsevier
… for about 70% of all the radiotherapy unintended exposure events covered under this study.
Errors in the calibration of radiotherapy beams or errors in the preparation of tables and …

Detection and prediction of radiotherapy errors

I El Naqa - Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and …, 2015 - Springer
… that such errors are luckily rare events and … radiotherapy error detection/prediction problem
as a statistical learning problem from one class (no events) and treat these rare error events