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Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy: Learning the New Approaches in Task Group 100 and Beyond

Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy: Learning the New Approaches in Task Group 100 and Beyond

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This book was developed for the AAPM 2013 Summer School Proceedings in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Radiotherapy physics has had a very long history of performing quality assurance. Physicists working with the very earliest radiotherapy units developed before the beginning of the last century realized the need to verify the calibration and proper operation of their equipment. The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement initiated standardization of quality assurance protocols through a series of recommendations. This was followed by a large collection of professional guidance documents, particularly from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Through these efforts, radiotherapy became one of the first medical disciplines to establish standardized quality assurance. In light of the increasing complexity of radiotherapy treatments and technology and the diversity of methods used by facilities for various clinical procedures, it is no longer practical to rely solely on generic, prescriptive lists of comprehensive quality assurance (QA) steps to ensure quality and safety for patients. This was the conclusion that guided the AAPMs Task Group 100 away from writing such guidelines for intensity-modulated radiotherapy and toward the examination of quality and safety techniques that have proven so effective first in industry and, more recently, in many medical disciplines. These techniques consider not only QA for equipment, but also for procedures as a whole in the context of the facility. These approaches and methodologies may be new and somewhat daunting to many practicing medical physicists. The goal of this book is to make these new techniques accessible to the broader medical physics community. The CD included in this book contains large tables, figures, and many of the texts images in color.
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9781888340495
9781888340495

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Publication date
2013
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
388
Dimensions (mm)
165.00 x 241.00
  • Preface List of Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction to Quality - Peter Dunscombe, Suzanne Evans, and Jeff Williamson Chapter 2 Work System Design and Culture - Jennifer L. Johnson, Barrett Caldwell, and Suzanne Evans Chapter 3 Actions, Failures, and Guidance - Bruce Thomadsen, Derek Brown, Peter Dunscombe, and Zoubir Ouhib Chapter 4 Risk Assessment Using the TG-100 Methodology - Bruce Thomadsen, Derek Brown, Eric Ford, M. Saiful Huq, and Frank Rath Chapter 5 Quality Management in Radiation Oncology - Eric Ford, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette, Luis Fong de los Santos, Frank Rath, George Sherouse, Jatinder Palta, Bruce Thomadsen, and Ellen Yorke Chapter 6 Reporting Systems - Steven Sutlief, Barrett Caldwell, Peter Dunscombe, and Sasa Mutic Chapter 7 Quality Improvement Paradigms - Steven Sutlief, Luis Fond de los Santos, and Todd Pawlicki Chapter 8 Information Management - Derek Brown, Eric Ford, A. J. Mundt, Sasa Mutic, and Todd Pawlicki Chapter 9 Radiation Therapy Quality Management Programs - Bruce Thomadsen, Ellen Yorke, Jeffrey Williamson, Jatinder Palta, Saiful Huq, Geoffrey Ibbott, and Sasa Mutic Practice Exercises Based on the Books Key Concepts 1:: Work Systems Design 2:: Taxonomy 3:: Process Mapping 4:: Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 5:: Fault Tree Analysis 6a:: Checklist Development 6b:: Procedure Drafting 7:: Quality Management Design 8:: Reporting Systems 9:: Root Cause Analysis 10:: Error Proofing 11:: The Use of Control Charts
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