Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy treatment processes are standardized?

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 459-465

  Simons, Pascale A M ^a   Houben, Ruud ^b,c   Benders, Jos ^d   Pijls Johannesma, Madelon ^b,c   Vandijck, Dominique ^a,e   Marneffe, Wim ^a   Backes, Huub ^b   Groothuis, Siebren ^f  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRO CLINIC   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compliance; Incident reporting; Lean management; Patient safety; Standard operating procedures; Task importance

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84923955461     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: 15322122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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