Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy

Learning the New Approaches in Task Group 100 and Beyond

Bruce Thomadsen, Peter Dunscombe, Eric Ford, Saiful Huq, Todd Pawlicki (Herausgeber)

CD-ROM (Software)

2013
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (Hersteller)
978-1-936366-23-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 realised 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 standardisation 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 standardised 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 AAPM's 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 text's images in color.

Inhalt

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 Book's 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Medical Physics Monograph,
• Verlagsort: Maryland
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 127 x 127 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Nuklearmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Radiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• ISBN-10: 1-936366-23-1 / 1936366231
• ISBN-13: 978-1-936366-23-1 / 9781936366231
• Zustand: Neuware