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1. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey: Radiation Therapy (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/rad-eng-cancer-551a.pdf
   October 07, 2016 - CAHPS Cancer Care Survey: Radiation Therapy CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Version: Radiation Therapy … Since it was decided that you would have radiation therapy, did your radiation therapy team tell you … Since it was decided that you would have radiation therapy, did your radiation therapy team give you … Since it was decided that you would have radiation therapy, did your radiation therapy team involve … or radiation therapy?

2. Final Progress Report: Improve Safety, Quality, and Efficiency in Radiotherapy with Automated HIT System (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/yang-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - Therapy), IGRT (Image- Guided Radiation Therapy), and SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy), because … There are many types of potential errors during radiation therapy treatments. … treatment delivery … treatment patient treatments could be detected automatically. … Not all radiation therapy (RT) treatment planning systems (TPS) are supported.

3. AHRQ Publications Influence North Carolina Medicaid Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/coe1203.html
   September 01, 2012 - Policy Search All Impact Case Studies September 2012 AHRQ's Technical Brief "Particle Beam Radiation … Therapies for Cancer" was highly instrumental in changing North Carolina's Medicaid coverage policy … to allow particle beam radiation treatment for some children with cancer. … treatment to children in certain cases. … However, the report does note that particle beam therapy's potential advantages over other types of radiotherapy

4. Oklahoma Uses AHRQ Research to Develop, Revise Coverage Policies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcoe58.html
   October 01, 2014 - Mike Herndon, DO, Medical Director, note that OHCA staff used AHRQ's Technical Brief "Particle Beam Radiation … Therapies for Cancer" in creating a guideline for the use of this therapy. … Because Oklahoma houses two of the eight proton beam radiation therapy centers in the United States, … Technical Brief notes that while there are a large number of scientific papers on charged particle radiotherapy … treatment, those studies do not document the circumstances in contemporary treatment strategies in which radiotherapy

5. Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/cancer.html
   June 01, 2018 - Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy … Women Treated for Breast Cancer With Breast-Conserving Surgery Who Received Radiation Therapy Women … under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy … Women Treated for Breast Cancer With Breast-Conserving Surgery Who Received Radiation Therapy, by Granular … Importance: Breast-conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy is an established standard of care

6. Developing Innovative Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-mazur.html
   March 01, 2023 - Mazur’s research goal is to ensure the safe delivery of radiation therapy. … Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink … Approximately 18,000 (3%) of the 600,000 patients who receive radiation therapy annually might be adversely … While radiation therapy has relatively low error and injury rates, studies show that most errors occurring

7. Final report: To Quantify the Impact of the Existing vs. Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance during Pretreatment QA Tasks (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mosaly-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance … Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and … Scope: Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by RTTs. … Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by the RTTs. … Relating physician’s workload with errors during radiation therapy planning.

8. Final report: To Quantify the Impact of the Existing vs. Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance during Pretreatment QA Tasks (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/mosaly-report.pdf
   June 30, 2020 - Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance … Enhanced Work Configuration of Radiation Therapy Technicians on Workload, Situation Awareness, and … Scope: Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by RTTs. … Our focus was on radiation therapy pretreatment QA tasks performed by the RTTs. … Relating physician’s workload with errors during radiation therapy planning.

9. Introducing the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-cancer-care-yost.pdf
   June 13, 2017 - • Received radiation therapy, drug therapy, or surgery for cancer at the specified cancer center … Radiation Therapy 2. Drug Therapy 3. … therapy administration, surgery for specific cancer types) … Billing Data • Professional and Outpatient Facility • CPT procedure codes • For outpatient Drug and Radiation … Therapy, additional criterion of at least 2 outpatient encounters for cancer treatment in past 6 months

10. CAHPS Cancer Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/index.html
    July 01, 2020 - Cancer Care Survey 5.0 (ZIP, 4 MB)   The ZIP file includes: Three survey instruments (for Radiation … Therapy, Drug Therapy, and Cancer Surgery) in English and Spanish (Word and PDF). … For quick access to the survey instruments and recommended administration methods: Radiation Therapy

11. Questions and Answers About the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/questions-and-answers-about-cancer-care-survey.pdf
    September 12, 2017 - and report on their experiences with the medical team that provided a particular type of care (e.g., radiation … therapy team). … The Cancer Care Survey uses terms like “drug therapy” and “radiation therapy” because, from the patients … therapy, drug therapy, or surgery) in an outpatient or inpatient setting in the past 6 months. … Create sample frames: Create separate sampling frames for each treatment modality (radiation therapy

12. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part2-cancer.html
    May 01, 2018 - Hispanics were less likely to receive radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery compared with … Importance: Radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery reduces the risk of cancer recurrence … therapy to the breast improved overall and among all ethnic groups. … therapy to the breast compared with White women. … In all years, Mexicans and other Hispanics were also less likely to receive radiation therapy to the

13. Fielding the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/fielding-cancer-53.pdf
    July 14, 2017 - Therapy The recommended algorithm to create a sampling frame for the Radiation Therapy Survey depends … a hospitalization for another purpose as his “radiation therapy team.” … not to exceed 5 fractions 77385 Intensity modulated radiation treatment delivery (IMRT), includes … treatment delivery, includes intrafraction tracking, when performed 77401 Radiation treatment delivery … port or parallel opposed ports, simple blocks or no blocks; up to 5 MeV 77407 Radiation treatment

14. Food Assistance Linked to Improved Health and Reduced Emergency Care Among Low-Income Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/853.html
    March 01, 2023 - AHRQ Grantee Identifies Strategies To Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Therapy . … AHRQ Grantee Identifies Strategies To Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Therapy AHRQ's latest grantee … New Research and Evidence From AHRQ Systematic review (draft open for comment): Radiation Therapy

15. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part2-cancer.html
    June 01, 2018 - Rates of women who received radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery were similar between Black … Importance: Radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery reduces the risk of cancer recurrence … therapy to the breast improved overall and for Blacks and Hispanics. … therapy to the breast compared with White women. … therapy to the breast.

16. Final Progress Report: Automated Image Analysis for the Prevention of Radiotherapy Delivery Errors (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/lamb-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Scope: The scope of this project is image-guided radiation therapy, in which patients are positioned … Key Words: radiotherapy, IGRT, medical event Purpose. … Scope Approximately 1 million patients per year receive radiation therapy in the United States as part … Patient positioning is performed by radiation therapy technologists, usually by visually aligning on-board … The overall alignment never-event error rate at UCLA for CBCT-guided radiotherapy (expressed as a per-radiotherapy

17. Introducing the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey" Transcript (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-cancer-care-transcript.pdf
    June 01, 2017 - It's, in the last six months, how often did your radiation therapy team listen carefully to you? … So for example, how often did your radiation therapy team listen carefully to you? … There's one algorithm for radiation therapy. … So, those patients will be sampled if they received radiation therapy or drug therapy. … Or it really isn't applicable with the drug therapy, radiation therapy, or surgery.

18. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/search.html?page=27
    February 01, 2011 - Technical Briefs Affiliation: Duke University Report Status: Final Comparative evaluation of radiation … treatments for clinically localized prostate cancer: an update Date: August 2010 Report Type: Technology … Consideration of Evidence on Antiemetic Drugs for Nausea and Vomiting Associated with Chemotherapy or Radiation … Therapy in Adults Date: July 2010 Report Type: Technology Assessment Program Reports Affiliation

19. Supplemental Items for the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey: Access | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/cancer/suppl-access-items.html
    March 01, 2017 - , please replace the bracketed references to [CANCER TREATMENT MODALITY] with the appropriate term: radiation … therapy, drug therapy, or cancer surgery.

20. CAHPS Cancer Care Supplemental Items (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/suppl-items-cancer-access-english-557-1a.docx
    March 07, 2017 - , please replace the bracketed references to [CANCER TREATMENT MODALITY] with the appropriate term: radiation … therapy, drug therapy, or cancer surgery.