Utilizing Quality Improvement Methods to Examine the Radiation Therapy Pathway for Patients Requiring Palliative Radiation Therapy at a Community Cancer Center
At a community cancer center, during weekly quality improvement huddles, the radiation therapy team expressed stress and frustration with the pretreatment pathway for patients requiring palliative radiotherapy. As the department was meeting provincial targets with respect to wait times, it was unknown why the consensus around the department reflected discomfort and stress.
Source: Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences - Category: Radiology Authors: Carrie Lavergne, Leslie Edmunds, Pauline Warden Tags: Research Article Source Type: research