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- Title
AAPM to Introduce Safety Self-assessment Tool.
- Authors
Rosier, Natasha
- Abstract
The article reports on the tools developed by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), to improve safety in the use of diagnostic and therapeutic radiation in medicine. Also discussed is the "Work Group on Prevention of Errors (WGPE)" created by AAPM to help simplify this initiative. Several activities of WGPE are discussed highlighting conduction of a survey "Safety Profile Self-Assessment Tool."
- Subjects
ALLIED health personnel; CANCER treatment; CORPORATE culture; QUALITY assurance; RADIATION protection; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK management in business; SURVEYS; PROFESSIONAL practice; SPECIALTY hospitals
- Publication
Radiation Therapist, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 2, p190
- ISSN
1084-1911
- Publication type
Article