Redesigning Radiotherapy Quality Assurance: Opportunities to Develop an Efficient, Evidence-Based System to Support Clinical Trials—Report of the National Cancer Institute Work Group on Radiotherapy Quality Assurance

Executive summary of AAPM Report Task Group 113: Guidance for the physics aspects of clinical trials

“…Important work has been ongoing in harmonization of credentialing for clinical trials which the NCI has advocated along with other changes 23. Quality for NCI‐funded clinical trials continues to be supported by the IROC infrastructure.…”

Prospective review of radiotherapy trials through implementation of standardized multicentre workflow and IT infrastructure

“…However, the move to prospective ICR is both labour and resource intensive. 14,15 If prospective ICR is to be performed in a timely manner and avoid delays in the patient treatment, feedback to centres is needed within 3 working days. The RTTQA group has limited funding to provide the expertise for outlining review and the four centres are not expected to offer high-level clinical expertise in outlining, which is viewed to be the responsibility of the chief investigator or nominated RT lead.…”

A Multinational Report on Methods for Institutional Credentialing for Spine Radiosurgery

“…Many of these guidelines have been set forth by national and international professional organizations. However, the majority of such work in QA for radiosurgery has focused on the successful implementation of QA in the context of multi-centered clinical trials [25,[28][29][30][31]. Others have published practice guidelines endorsed by governing organizations for the performance of SBRT to serve as an educational tool designed to assist practitioners in providing appropriate care for patients [32].…”