2012
DOI: 10.1118/1.4740127
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Poster — Thur Eve — 19: Risk assessment of clinical radiation processes using failure modes and effect analysis

Abstract: The aim of this work was to apply failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) to assess risk in two radiation planning and treatment processes; our on-call (out-of-clinical hours) process and our tomotherapy process. The motivation was provided by analysis of 2506 adverse incidents reported over a 5 year period, the on-call process for giving rise to a higher than expected number of incidents and our tomotherapy process for the reverse. For the on-call scenario, three separate processes were analysed: our current… Show more

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