title: A survey of Canadian medical physicists: software quality assurance of in-house software.
abstract: This paper reports on a survey of medical physicists who write and use in-house written software as part of their professional work. The goal of the survey was to assess the extent of in-house software usage and the desire or need for related software quality guidelines. The survey contained eight multiple-choice questions, a ranking question, and seven free text questions. The survey was sent to medical physicists associated with cancer centers across Canada. The respondents to the survey expressed interest in having guidelines to help them in their software-related work, but also demonstrated extensive skills in the area of testing, safety, and communication. These existing skills form a basis for medical physicists to establish a set of software quality guidelines.
authors: Kingston Regional Cancer Center. greg.salomons@krcc.on.ca.
authors: Greg J
authors: GJ
authors: Salomons
authors: Diane
authors: D
authors: Kelly
mesh_terms: D006283:Health Physics; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires