Risk and quality in brachytherapy from a technical perspective

J Poder, MJ Rivard, A Howie, ÅC Tedgren, A Haworth - Clinical Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Aims To provide an overview of the history of incidents in brachytherapy and to describe the
pillars in place to ensure that medical physicists deliver high-quality brachytherapy …

Brachytherapy patient safety events in an academic radiation medicine program

S Felder, L Morley, E Ng, K Chan, H Ballantyne… - Brachytherapy, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To describe the incidence and type of brachytherapy patient safety events over 10
years in an academic brachytherapy program. Methods and Materials Brachytherapy patient …

Benchmarking failure mode and effects analysis of electronic brachytherapy with data from incident learning systems

JDP Hoisak, R Manger, I Dragojević - Brachytherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a prospective risk assessment tool for
identifying failure modes in equipment or processes and informing the design of quality …

Patient safety program and incident review of high-dose-rate brachytherapy at an academic center in Thailand

L Tuntipumiamorn, K Kamplong… - Journal of …, 2022 - termedia.pl
Purpose High-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) is an effective modality. However, its'
application involves complex and inter-disciplinary procedures. Safe and effective HDR-BT …