Enhancing the role of case-oriented peer review to improve quality and safety in radiation oncology: Executive summary.

ABSTRACT: This report is part of a series of white papers commissioned for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Board of Directors as part of ASTRO's Target Safely Campaign, focusing on the role of peer review as an important component of a broad safety/quality assurance (QA) program. Peer review is one of the most effective means for assuring the quality of qualitative, and potentially controversial, patient-specific decisions in radiation oncology. This report summarizes many of the areas throughout radiation therapy that may benefit from the application of peer review. Each radiation oncology facility should evaluate the issues raised and develop improved ways to apply the concept of peer review to its individual process and workflow. This might consist of a daily multidisciplinary

SUBMITTER: Marks LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808744 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul - Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature