Technical Note: Electronic chart checks in a paperless radiation therapy clinic

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4726-4732

  Yang, Deshan ^a   Wu, Yu ^a   Brame, Ryan S ^a   Yaddanapudi, Sridhar ^a   Rangaraj, Dharanipathy ^a   Li, H Harold ^a   Goddu, S Murty ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

computer software; patient safety; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EFFICIENCY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATLAB; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY AND SAFETIES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT; RELATIONAL DATABASE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84864684245     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736825     Document Type: Article

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