Accident prevention in radiotherapy

In order to prevent accidents in radiotherapy, it is important to learn from accidents that have occurred previously. Lessons learned from a number of accidents are summarised and underlying patterns are looked for in this paper. Accidents can be prevented by applying several safety layers of preven...

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Autor principal: Holmberg, O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2007
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614274
http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.3.2.e27
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description In order to prevent accidents in radiotherapy, it is important to learn from accidents that have occurred previously. Lessons learned from a number of accidents are summarised and underlying patterns are looked for in this paper. Accidents can be prevented by applying several safety layers of preventive actions. Categories of these preventive actions are discussed together with specific actions belonging to each category of safety layer.
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spelling pubmed-30976642011-05-24 Accident prevention in radiotherapy Holmberg, O Biomed Imaging Interv J Review Article In order to prevent accidents in radiotherapy, it is important to learn from accidents that have occurred previously. Lessons learned from a number of accidents are summarised and underlying patterns are looked for in this paper. Accidents can be prevented by applying several safety layers of preventive actions. Categories of these preventive actions are discussed together with specific actions belonging to each category of safety layer. Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2007-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3097664/ /pubmed/21614274 http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.3.2.e27 Text en © 2007 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614274
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