Development and results of a patient-reported treatment experience questionnaire on a 1.5 T MR-Linac.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the implementation of new radiotherapy technology, it is imperative that patient experience is investigated alongside efficacy and outcomes. This paper presents the development of a specifically designed validated questionnaire and a first report of international multi-institutional preliminary patient experience of MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART) on the 1.5 T MR-Linac (MRL).

Methods

A patient experience questionnaire was developed and validated before being distributed to the Elekta MRL Consortium, to gather first patient-reported experience from participating centres worldwide. The final version of the questionnaire contains 18 questions covering a range of themes and was scored on a Likert scale of 0-3. Responses were post-processed so that a s

SUBMITTER: Barnes H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8283148 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature