Human factor associations with safety events in radiation therapy

CONCLUSION: An application of the HFACS to incident learning reports revealed relationships between human contributing factors and radiotherapy errors. Safety improvement efforts should include supervisory influences as they affect risk and error. An association between skill-based and treatment planning errors showed a need for more mindfulness in this increasingly automated process. An association between decision and QA errors revealed a need for improved education in this area. These and other findings can be used to strategically advance safety.PMID:34505353 | DOI:10.1002/acm2.13420
Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - Category: Physics Authors: Source Type: research