Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy
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Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy

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Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy

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The first text to focus solely on quality and safety in radiotherapy, this work encompasses not only traditional, more technically oriented, quality assurance activities, but also general approaches of quality and safety. It includes contributions from experts both inside and outside the field to present a global view. The task of assuring quality

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781439804377
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Biotechnology in Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contributors
  7. Section I. Quality Management and Improvement
  8. Chapter 1. Perspective on Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy
  9. Chapter 2. Quality as Viewed and Lived by the Patient
  10. Chapter 3. Quality Management: An Overview
  11. Chapter 4. Quality Management: Radiotherapy
  12. Chapter 5. Development and Operation of a Quality Management Program: A Case Study
  13. Chapter 6. Methodologies for Quality Improvement
  14. Chapter 7. Lean Thinking and Quality Improvement
  15. Chapter 8. Process Control and Quality Improvement
  16. Chapter 9. Access to Care: Perspectives from a Private Healthcare Environment
  17. Chapter 10. Access to Care: Perspectives from a Public Healthcare Environment
  18. Chapter 11. Cost of Quality: Health Technology Assessment
  19. Chapter 12. Past, Present, and Future of Quality in Radiotherapy
  20. Chapter 13. Past, Present, and Future of Quality in Radiotherapy Physics
  21. Section II. Patient Safety and Managing Error
  22. Chapter 14. Issues in Patient Safety
  23. Chapter 15. Overview of Risk Management
  24. Chapter 16. Tools for Risk Management
  25. Chapter 17. Error and Near-Miss Reporting: View from Europe
  26. Chapter 18. Error and Near-Miss Reporting: View from North America
  27. Chapter 19. The Impact of Cultural Biases on Safety
  28. Chapter 20. Primer on High Reliability Organizing
  29. Chapter 21. Errors in Patient Information Flow
  30. Chapter 22. Identifying and Reducing Risk
  31. Chapter 23. New Paradigm for Quality Management in Radiation Therapy Based on Risk Analysis
  32. Chapter 24. Risk Analysis and Control for Brachytherapy Treatments
  33. Section III. Methods to Assure and Improve Quality
  34. Chapter 25. Medical Indicators of Quality: Terminology and Examples
  35. Chapter 26. Medical Indicators of Quality: Structure, Process, and Outcome
  36. Chapter 27. Role of Quality Audits: View from North America
  37. Chapter 28. Role of Quality Audits: View from the IAEA
  38. Chapter 29. Peer Review: Physician’s View from Australia
  39. Chapter 30. Peer Review: Physicist’s View fromNorth America
  40. Chapter 31. Overview of Credentialing and Certification
  41. Chapter 32. Approach to Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation
  42. Chapter 33. Clinical Trials: Credentialing
  43. Chapter 34. Clinical Trials: Quality Assurance
  44. Chapter 35. Vendor’s Role in Quality Improvement
  45. Chapter IV. People and Quality
  46. Chapter 36. Role of Leadership
  47. Chapter 37. Human Factors Engineering: Overview
  48. Chapter 38. Human Factors Engineering: Radiotherapy Application
  49. Chapter 39. Human Factors Engineering: Case Study
  50. Chapter 40. Changing Role of the Radiation Oncologist
  51. Chapter 41. Changing Role of the Medical Physicist
  52. Chapter 42. Staffing for Quality: Overview
  53. Chapter 43. Staffing for Quality: Physics
  54. Chapter 44. Role of Training
  55. Chapter 45. Practical Aspects of Training
  56. Section V. Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy
  57. Chapter 46. CT Simulation
  58. Chapter 47. MRI and MRS Simulation
  59. Chapter 48. Image Registration, Fusion, and Segmentation
  60. Chapter 49. 4D Simulation
  61. Chapter 50. Treatment Planning Systems
  62. Chapter 51. External Beam Radiotherapy
  63. Chapter 52. Linear Accelerator: Resource Analysis for Commissioning
  64. Chapter 53. Linear Accelerator: Implementation and Use
  65. Chapter 54. Cobalt: Implementation and Use
  66. Chapter 55. Superficial and Orthovoltage: Implementation and Use
  67. Chapter 56. Computer-Controlled and Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
  68. Chapter 57. Intensity-Modulated Volumetric Arc Radiotherapy
  69. Chapter 58. Four-Dimensional Treatment
  70. Chapter 59. Combined Planning and Delivery Systems
  71. Chapter 60. Proton Radiotherapy
  72. Chapter 61. Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
  73. Chapter 62. Total Body Irradiation
  74. Chapter 63. High Dose Rate Brachytherapy
  75. Chapter 64. Electronic Brachytherapy
  76. Chapter 65. Technical Guidance Documents
  77. Section VI.Quality Control: Equipment
  78. Chapter 66. Dosimetry Equipment and Phantoms
  79. Chapter 67. Conventional Simulators
  80. Chapter 68. Computed Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  81. Chapter 69. Stand-Alone External Beam Treatment Planning Systems
  82. Chapter 70. Conventional Linear Accelerators
  83. Chapter 71. Linear Accelerator–Based MV and kV Imaging Systems
  84. Chapter 72. Elekta Multileaf Collimator
  85. Chapter 74. Siemens Multileaf Collimator
  86. Chapter 75. Integrated Systems: Tomotherapy
  87. Chapter 76. Integrated Systems: Gamma Knife
  88. Chapter 77. Integrated Systems: CyberKnife
  89. Chapter 78. Stand-Alone Localization Systems: Ultrasound
  90. Chapter 79. Stand-Alone Localization Systems: Transponder Systems
  91. Chapter 80. Stand-Alone Localization: Surface Imaging Systems
  92. Chapter 81. Mobile Electron Beam Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
  93. Chapter 82. Proton Radiotherapy
  94. Chapter 83. High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy
  95. Section VII. Quality Control: Patient-Specific
  96. Chapter 84. External Beam Plan and MU Checks
  97. Chapter 85. Monte Carlo
  98. Chapter 86. Patient Setup
  99. Chapter 87. Motion Management
  100. Chapter 88. Total Skin Electron Therapy
  101. Chapter 89. Total Body Irradiation and Intensity-Modulated Total Marrow Irradiation
  102. Chapter 90. Tomotherapy
  103. Chapter 91. CyberKnife
  104. Chapter 92. Multileaf Collimator-Based Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
  105. Chapter 93. Compensator-Based Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
  106. Chapter 94. Cranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiotherapy
  107. Chapter 95. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
  108. Chapter 96. Proton Radiotherapy
  109. Chapter 97. High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy
  110. Chapter 98. Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy
  111. Chapter 99. Brachytherapy with Unsealed Sources
  112. Chapter 100. Intravascular Brachytherapy
  113. Chapter 73. Varian Mutlileaf Collimator
  114. Back cover