Event (error and near-miss) reporting and learning system for process improvement in radiation oncology

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 5027-5036

  Mutic, Sasa ^a   Brame, R Scott ^a   Oddiraju, Swetha ^a   Parikh, Parag ^a   Westfall, Melisa A ^a   Hopkins, Merilee L ^a   Medina, Angel D ^a   Danieley, Jonathan C ^a   Michalski, Jeff M ^a   El Naqa, Issam M ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Wu, Bin ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous performance improvement; error reporting; healthcare delivery improvement; healthcare systems engineering; quality management

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; ONCOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; CORRECTIVE MEASURES; ELECTRONIC REPORTING; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; REPORTING MECHANISMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956331869     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3471377     Document Type: Article

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