A 2-year review of recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission events: What errors occur in the modern brachytherapy era?

Very simple treatment errors, such as wrong patient, or wrong side of patient treated, are still occurring. Newer, complex deliveries such as high-dose-rate partial breast irradiation and low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy also had a large number of events reported in this sampling. This report can help institutions establish needs for quality assessment and quality control processes.