Quality assurance in conformal radiotherapy: DYNARAD consensus report on practice guidelines
Autor: | G. Chierego, Jan Van Dijk, Ronald Van Loon, J.C. Rosenwald, Bengt Inge Ruden, Zoi Kolitsi, Olav Dahl, Jean Drouard |
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Přispěvatelé: | Faculteit der Geneeskunde |
Rok vydání: | 1997 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality management Quality Assurance Health Care Radiotherapy business.industry Process (engineering) Consensus Development Conferences as Topic Treatment outcome Hematology Conformal radiotherapy Oncology Medicine Degree of precision Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics Special case business Quality assurance |
Zdroj: | Radiotherapy and oncology, 45, 217-223. Elsevier |
ISSN: | 1879-0887 0167-8140 |
Popis: | Background and purpose : Conformal radiotherapy has only recently been widely implemented. Although not all aspects have yet been adequately proven, it is generally recognized that maintaining a high degree of precision throughout the process is critical to the treatment outcome while the focus for quality assurance and quality improvement will need to concentrate more on human factors, procedures, communication, organization and training. A general consensus document on quality assurance guidelines for institutions that deliver conformal radiotherapy treatments to patients has been elaborated within the framework of the DYNARAD/BIOMED concerted action on conformal radiotherapy. The present paper aims to highlight those issues that were identified as of specific importance to conformal radiotherapy. The work reported here further details this guidance by direct correlation with the issues involved in the special case of conformal radiotherapy. Methods : The DYNARAD document has been drafted in the form of a desktop guide comprising six sets of guidelines and is based on the ESTRO advisory report on `Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy'. Results and conclusions : The document has been endorsed by the DYNARAD group of institutions. As such it can form the basis for further discussions and enter into the subsequent phase of expanding its consensus basis. |
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