Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy (Hardcover)

Part I Quality Management and Improvement

A Perspective on Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy

Quality as Viewed and Lived by the Patient

Quality Management: An Overview

Quality Management: Radiotherapy

Development and Operation of a Quality Management Program: Case Study

Methodologies for Quality Improvement

Lean Thinking and Quality Improvement

Process Control and Quality Improvement

Access to Care: Perspectives from a Private Healthcare Environment

Access to Care: Perspectives from a Public Healthcare Environment

The Cost of Quality: Health Technology Assessment

The Past, Present, and Future of Quality in Radiotherapy

Past, Present, and Future of Quality in Radiotherapy Physics

Part II Patient Safety and Managing Error

Issues in Patient Safety

An Overview of Risk Management

Tools for Risk Management

Error and Near-Miss Reporting: A View from Europe

Error and Near-Miss Reporting: A View from North America

The Impact of Cultural Biases on Safety

A Primer on High Reliability Organizing

Errors in Patient Information Flow

Identifying and Reducing Risk

A New Paradigm for Quality Management in Radiation Therapy Based on Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis and Control for Brachytherapy

Part III Methods to Assure and Improve Quality

Medical Indicators of Quality: Terminology and Examples

Medical Indicators of Quality: Structure, Process, and Outcome

The Role of Quality Audits: A View from North America

The Role of Quality Audits: A View from the IAEA

Peer Review: A Physician’s View from Australia

Peer Review: A Physicist’s View from North America

An Overview of Credentialing and Certification

An Approach to Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation

Clinical Trials: Credentialing

Clinical Trials: Quality Assurance

The Vendor’s Role in Quality Improvement

Part IV People and Quality

The Role of Leadership

Human Factors Engineering: An Overview

Human Factors Engineering: A Radiotherapy Application

Human Factors Engineering: A Case Study

The Changing Role of the Radiation Oncologist

The Changing Role of the Medical Physicist

Staffing for Quality: Overview

Staffing for Quality: Physics

The Role of Training

Practical Aspects of Training

Part V Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy

CT Simulation

MRI and MRS Simulation

Image Registration, Fusion, and Segmentation

4D Simulation

Treatment Planning Systems

External Beam Radiotherapy

Linear Accelerator: Resource Analysis for Commissioning

Linear Accelerator: Implementation and Use

Cobalt: Implementation and Use

Superficial and Orthovoltage: Implementation and Use

Computer-Controlled and Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy

Intensity-Modulated Volumetric Arc Radiotherapy

Four-Dimensional Treatment

Combined Planning and Delivery Systems

Proton Radiotherapy

Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiation Therapy

Total Body Irradiation

High Dose Rate Brachytherapy

Electronic Brachytherapy

Technical Guidance Documents

Part VI Quality Control: Equipment

Dosimetry Equipment and Phantoms

Conventional Simulators

Computed Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Stand-Alone External Beam Treatment Planning Systems

Conventional Linear Accelerators

Linear Accelerator?Based MV and kV Imaging Systems

Elekta Multileaf Collimator

Varian Multileaf Collimator

Siemens Multileaf Collimator

Integrated Systems: Tomotherapy

Integrated Systems: GammaKnife

Integrated Systems: CyberKnife

Stand-Alone Localization Systems: Ultrasound

Stand-Alone Localization Systems: Transponder Systems

Stand-Alone Localization: Surface Imaging Systems

Mobile Electron Beam Intraoperative Radiation Therapy

Proton Radiotherapy

High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy

Part VII Quality Control: Patient-Specific

External Beam Plan and MU Checks

Monte Carlo

Patient Setup

Motion Management

Total Skin Electron Therapy

Total Body Irradiation and Intensity-Modulated Total Marrow Irradiation

Tomotherapy

CyberKnife

Multileaf Collimator-Based Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy

Compensator-Based Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy

Cranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiotherapy

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Proton Radiotherapy

High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy

Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy with Unsealed Sources

Intravascular Brachytherapy