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61. Designing a safer radiology department. | PSNet
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    March 04, 2015 - June 5, 2013 Radiation Therapy Safety: The Critical Role of the Radiation Therapist. … May 30, 2012 Improving patient safety in radiotherapy by learning from near misses, incidents

62. Sepsis Resulting from Delays in Treatment and Miscommunication among Specialists | PSNet
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    February 26, 2025 - most often related to traumatic injury or associated with underlying diseases such as malignancy. 1 Radiation … therapy to the pelvis including the prostate, as with this patient, can result in chronic radiation … therapy. … Take Home Points Pelvic radiation therapy increases the risk for adjacent tissue injury and can be … Impact of radiotherapy on surgical repair and outcome in patients with rectourethral fistula.

63. Patient safety in medical imaging: a joint paper of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS). | PSNet
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    September 30, 2010 - Cancer July 31, 2023 Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity Modulated Radiation … Therapy: An ASTRO Safety White Paper Update.

64. MRI safety: prepare for new guidance. | PSNet
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    September 12, 2016 - May 24, 2023 Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

65. Root cause analysis. | PSNet
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    June 15, 2016 - January 16, 2013 Accident prevention in day-to-day clinical radiation therapy practice

66. Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy treatment processes are standardized? | PSNet
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    December 05, 2018 - Study Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy … Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy treatment processes are … This quality improvement study found that adherence to patient safety measures while providing radiation … therapy—such as verifying patient identification —increased when work processes were standardized. … An extensive evaluation of safety culture in a radiotherapy institute.

67. Second victim syndrome in intensive care unit healthcare workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis on types, prevalence, risk factors, and recovery time. | PSNet
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    March 24, 2019 - safety October 9, 2019 Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity Modulated Radiation … Therapy: An ASTRO Safety White Paper Update. … September 25, 2013 Modern palliative radiation treatment: do complexity and workload

68. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    January 30, 2008 - light of a recent analysis by the Chief Medical Officer for the United Kingdom regarding error in radiation … therapy.

69. Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. | PSNet
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    May 04, 2016 - Book/Report Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. Citation Text: Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. M…

70. Quality initiatives: developing a radiology quality and safety program: a primer. | PSNet
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    March 04, 2015 - January 22, 2017 Accident prevention in day-to-day clinical radiation therapy practice

71. Diagnostic Excellence Initiative. | PSNet
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    October 06, 2022 - July 28, 2013 Radiation Therapy Safety: The Critical Role of the Radiation Therapist.

72. Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety. | PSNet
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    April 19, 2013 - July 31, 2012 Radiation Therapy Safety: The Critical Role of the Radiation Therapist.

73. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 13, 2023 - Through examples of the opioid crisis in the United States and Canada, and radiation therapy in Canada

74. Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnostic imaging: a strategy to inform clinician ordering. | PSNet
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    August 04, 2015 - Study Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnostic imaging: a strategy to inform clinician ordering. Citation Text: Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, et al. Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnos…

75. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2011 - effects analysis, that anticipates potential safety issues before introducing a new intraoperative radiation … therapy.

76. Interventions to promote safety culture in cancer care: a systematic review. | PSNet
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    August 09, 2023 - November 29, 2023 Trend analysis of radiation therapy incidents over seven years.

77. Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment. | PSNet
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    October 28, 2010 - May 31, 2023 Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

78. Improving formal incivility reporting in ambulatory oncology: implementing the CIVIC Duty program. | PSNet
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    March 14, 2022 - EMERGING INNOVATIONS Improving formal incivility reporting in ambulatory oncology: implementing the CIVIC Duty program. Citation Text: Gordon JN. Improving formal incivility reporting in ambulatory oncology: implementing the CIVIC Duty program. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2023;27(6):602-606. doi:10.1188/23…

79. Lessons from walking the medical distancing tightrope. | PSNet
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    October 21, 2020 - August 12, 2020 Planning for a pandemic: mitigating risk to radiation therapy service

80. Safe Practices for Better Healthcare: 2006 Update. | PSNet
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    September 06, 2011 - October 24, 2012 Radiation Therapy Safety: The Critical Role of the Radiation Therapist