Patient safety in external beam radiotherapy, results of the ACCIRAD project: Current status of proactive risk assessment, reactive analysis of events, and reporting and learning systems in Europe.

CONCLUSIONS: Most European countries have taken steps to implement European directives designed to reduce the probability and magnitude of accidents in radiotherapy. Variability between countries is substantial in terms of legal frameworks, tools used to conduct proactive risk assessment and reactive analysis of events, and in the reporting and learning systems utilized. These findings underscore the need for greater harmonisation in common terminology, classification and reporting practices across Europe to improve patient safety and to enable more reliable inter-country comparisons.
PMID: 28351525 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - March 25, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Malicki J, Bly R, Bulot M, Godet JL, Jahnen A, Krengli M, Maingon P, Prieto Martin C, Przybylska K, Skrobała A, Valero M, Jarvinen H Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research