Analysis of human errors in the operation of various treatment planning systems over a 10-year period.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to summarize and report data on errors related to treatment planning, which were collected by medical physicists. The following analyses were performed based on the 10-year error report data: (1) listing of high-risk errors that occurred and (2) the relationship between the number of treatments and error rates, (3) usefulness of the Automated Plan Checking System (APCS) with the Eclipse Scripting Application Programming Interface and (4) the relationship between human factors and error rates. Differences in error rates were observed before and after the use of APCS. APCS reduced the error rate by ~1% for high-risk errors and 3% for low-risk errors. The number of treatments was negatively correlated with error rates. Therefore, we examined the relationship between th

SUBMITTER: Iijima K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420834 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature