Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8458775 | Radiotherapy and Oncology | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The ACCIRAD project, commissioned by the European Commission (EC) to develop guidelines for risk analysis of accidental and unintended exposures in external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), was completed in the year 2014. In 2015, the “General guidelines on risk management in external beam radiotherapy” were published as EC report Radiation Protection (RP)-181. The present document is the third and final report of the findings from the ACCIRAD project. The main aim of this paper is to describe the key features of the risk management process and to provide general guidelines for radiotherapy departments and national authorities on risk assessment and analysis of adverse error-events and near misses. The recommendations provided here and in EC report RP-181 are aimed at promoting the harmonisation of risk management systems across Europe, improving patient safety, and enabling more reliable inter-country comparisons.
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Authors
Julian Malicki, Ritva Bly, Mireille Bulot, Jean-Luc Godet, Andreas Jahnen, Marco Krengli, Philippe Maingon, Carlos Prieto Martin, Agnieszka Skrobala, Marc Valero, Hannu Jarvinen,