Radiotherapy treatment checking procedures throughout Australasia: results of a survey.
In July 1995, a questionnaire was forwarded to thirty two physicists overseeing Radiation Oncology Departments and brachytherapy in hospitals throughout Australia and New Zealand. From the thirty seven hospitals reached by this survey, details were gathered on thirty hospitals, including the Newcastle Mater Hospital. In most radiotherapy centres where treatment planning is performed by radiation therapists, at least some of the treatment sheets and their calculations are double checked by radiotherapy physicists. While 23% checked the treatment sheets of all patients, in the majority of centres physicists were found to check only a minor selection, that is, less than 20% of all treatment sheets. Only in six centres physicists were not involved.
Duggan
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah, NSW, Australia.
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Howlett
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D001315:Australia; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires