… The second survey asked for more details about the national systems of risk management
in EBRT and for classifying, recording and reporting adverse events or near misses with …

… harm to a patient General term that may include near misses, no harm or minor events and
adverse error-events Near miss event (Near miss) Event potentially involving accidental or …

… The most common near miss in this category was to plan an isocentric beam arrangement
when the request had been for a set-up technique using a fixed source-skin distance (SSD), …

… were referred for radiation therapy in the … start of radiation therapy ranged from 15 to 68
days (median, 34 days). All patients received continuous-course external-beam radiation therapy …

… There are some case report studies in external photon or electron beam radiotherapy, for …
If the error was found before starting the radiation therapy, it is referred to near misses. …

… of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). While errors within radiation therapy are infrequent…
The potentially serious consequences of misadministration of radiation therapy have been …

… This study also only investigated events related to external beam radiation therapy, and
did not include brachytherapy. In practice, causal factor analysis from ILS data should be …

… body radiation therapy, breath-hold control, 4-dimensional computed tomography simulations),
which would represent fewer chances for near misses to occur in the emergent pathway. …

… 2009, data on incidents were collected in the radiotherapy department (RT) by means of an
… There were 24 incidents that were classified as near misses (NM). Incorrect data input and …

… We also searched for radiotherapy safety-related incidents and near misses that were
available from local, national and international databases including the ‘Radiation Oncology …