Quality assurance in conformal radiotherapy: DYNARAD consensus report on practice guidelines

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-223

  Kolitsi, Zoi ^a   Dahl, Olav ^b   Van Loon, Ron ^c   Drouard, Jean ^d   Van Dijk, Jan ^e   Ruden, Bengt Inge ^f   Chierego, Giorgio ^g   Rosenwald, Jean Claude ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g Department of Medical Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Quality assurance; Quality standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0030734694     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(97)00144-8     Document Type: Article

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