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- Title
Quality Assurance for Radiotherapy: A Priority for Clinical Trials.
- Authors
Goodman, Karyn A.
- Abstract
The author discusses the importance of assessing the quality of cancer care in the field of radiation oncology, in which frequent changes in novel technologies and treatment paradigms have occurred. She describes the role of professional organizations in developing best practice guidelines to monitor the national quality of radiotherapy (RT) practice. She also discusses the impact of deviations in RT quality standard on the clinical outcomes of patients.
- Subjects
CANCER treatment; QUALITY assurance; PROFESSIONAL associations; RADIOTHERAPY; QUALITY standards; CANCER patients
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2013, Vol 105, Issue 6, p376
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djt031