… a radiotherapy risk profile has been published by the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety
… and strict adherence to guidelines/protocols in improving the safety of radiotherapy process. …

… management in external beam radiotherapy” were published … general guidelines for
radiotherapy departments and national … across Europe, improving patient safety, and enabling …

… in radiotherapy, and (2) to develop guidelines based on a risk analysis of accidental and
unintended exposures in external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) in order to improve patient safety. …

OBJECTIVE. External beam radiation therapy is a highly effective treatment for many types
of cancer and other diseases, but incorrect delivery of the high doses necessary for tumor …

… WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety is in the … patient safety. A literature review showed
that, in the last three decades (1976–2007), >1700 patients were affected and ∼2% of patients …

… the probability and magnitude of accidents in radiotherapy. Variability between countries
is … Europe to improve patient safety and to enable more reliable inter-country comparisons. …

… of patient setup and even real time corrections for intrafractional patient motion, so-called
dynamic adaptive radiation therapy (… In short, the increasing complexity of radiation therapy …

… Another metric of clinical impact more directly related to patient safety was obtained by
analyzing our list of radiation oncology incident reports from 2007 through 2015. Figure 5 …

… the professional silos between radiation therapy, radiation oncology, and medical physics
through a shared focus to improve the safety and quality of radiation therapy in our program. …

… patient safety in … beam radiotherapy since its establishment. The importance of educating
and training radiation therapists in incident prevention and patient safety in radiotherapy should …