The radiation treatment-planning process includes contouring, planning, and reviewing the
final plan, and each component requires substantial time and effort from multiple experts …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to validate a fully automatic treatment planning
system for conventional radiotherapy of cervical cancer. This system was developed to …

Purpose To assess the risk of failure of a recently developed automated treatment planning
tool, the radiation planning assistant (RPA), and to determine the reduction in these risks …

Background: In health care institutions, safety culture is defined as the integrity of individual
and group efforts to reduce the harms for the patients. This is possible through interactions …

Purpose: The Joint Commission has encouraged the healthcare industry to become “High
Reliability Organizations” by “Chasing Zero Harm” in patient care. In radiation oncology, the …

Paper aims Analyzes the use of process management and safety culture practices in
Radiotherapy Services and impacts on quality of patient care and safety. Originality …

Abstract Purpose Incident learning systems (ILSs) require substantial time and effort to
maintain, risking staff burnout and ILS disuse. Herein, we assess the durability of ILS …

Purpose To evaluate the impact of Varian Identify, a novel combined radiofrequency
identification, biometric and surface-matching technology, on its potential for patient safety …

Nowadays, quality promotion of healthcare services has become one of the most
challenging goals of healthcare systems all over the world. Also, one of the most important …

Background: Substantial expenditures on health care safety programs have been justified by
their goal of reducing health care associated–harm (adverse events), but adverse event …