Risk assessment in radiotherapy - Lessons from systems engineering

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 251-254

  Fallon, E F ^a   Chadwick, L ^a   Van Der Putten, W J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health information technology; Radiotherapy; Risk assessment; Systems engineering

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77949453187     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03893-8_71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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