A national approach for automated collection of standardized and population-based radiation therapy data in Sweden.

CONCLUSIONS: An infrastructure for structured and automated prospective collection of syntactically interoperable RT data into a national clinical quality registry for RT data is under implementation. Future developments include adapting MIQA to other treatment modalities (e.g. proton therapy and brachytherapy) and finding strategies to harmonize structure delineations. How the RT registry should comply with domain-specific ontologies such as the Radiation Oncology Ontology (ROO) is under discussion.
PMID: 27102842 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - April 17, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Nyholm T, Olsson C, Agrup M, Björk P, Björk-Eriksson T, Gagliardi G, Grinaker H, Gunnlaugsson A, Gustafsson A, Gustafsson M, Johansson B, Johnsson S, Karlsson M, Kristensen I, Nilsson P, Nyström L, Onjukka E, Reizenstein J, Skönevik J, Söderström K, Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research