title: [Quality assurance in radio-oncology/radiotherapy: basic considerations].
abstract: Since 1994 the German Radiooncological Society has established a special commission for quality assurance in radiation oncology. The working agenda covers guidelines for dosimetry, infrastructure and organisation of a radiooncological department. The efforts are in close cooperation with the quality assurance programs of the EORTC. Corresponding guidelines are being published. They can be applied to create a quality assurance system in a radiooncological department. They are not considered definitive and are still receptive to benefit from further modifications.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Radioonkologie und Nuklearmedizin, Alfried-Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Krankenhaus, Essen.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Seegenschmiedt
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bamberg
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011834:Radiation Monitoring