Systematic review of prospective hazard analysis in radiation therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prospective hazard analysis (PHA) was introduced to the wider medical physics community by the initiation of American association of physicists in medicine task group 100 in 2003. Since then, there has been increasing interest in the applicability of PHA to radiotherapy for the purpose of keeping patients safe and assessing the risks within the whole practice of radiotherapy. The purpose of this research was to review the PHA literature focusing on which techniques and technologies have been assessed, how they have been assessed, and what can be learnt.

Methods

The search for English language, peer-reviewed, full-text articles was conducted across five databases and the citations of three seminal papers using a common search strategy. The collation, filtration,

SUBMITTER: Hindmarsh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12421374 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature