BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Unintended exposures in radiotherapy are likely to occur
when certain conditions that favour such exposures exist. Based on the frequency of …

In the last few years there has been significant development of radiation therapy (RT)
equipment with advanced imaging and delivery techniques, as well as treatment planning …

Errors from radiotherapy machine or software malfunction usually are well documented as
they affect hundreds of patients, whereas random errors affecting individual patients are …

Abstract Purpose Safety in Radiation Oncology (SAFRON) is a reporting and learning
system on radiotherapy and radionuclide therapy incidents and near misses. The primary …

Application of an incident taxonomy for radiation therapy: Analysis of five years of data from
three integrated cancer centres Page 1 reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy 2 3 ( 2 0 …

Purpose This study identifies accident sequences from the past accidents in order to help
the risk analysis application to the external radiotherapy. Materials and Methods This study …

Purpose: To identify factors associated with a near-miss or safety incident (NMSI) in patients
undergoing radiotherapy and identify common root causes of NMSIs and their relationship …

Before introducing new treatment techniques, an investigation of hazards due to
unintentional radiation exposures is a reasonable activity for proactively increasing patient …

About 150 radiological accidents, involving more than 3000 patients with adverse effects, 15
patients fatalities and about 5000 staff and public exposures have been collected and …

By combining incident learning and process failure-mode-and-effects-analysis (FMEA) in a
structure-process-outcome framework we have created a risk profile for our radiation …