Prevention of a wrong-location misadministration through the use of an intradepartmental incident learning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6968-6971

  Ford, Eric C ^a   Smith, Koren ^a   Harris, Kendra ^a   Terezakis, Stephanie ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

incident learning; patient safety; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCELERATOR CONTROLS; CONTROL BARRIERS; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; INCIDENT LEARNING; ONCOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUT OF SEQUENCES; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION TREATMENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84868529727     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4760774     Document Type: Article

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