Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy treatment processes are standardized?
Simons P, Houben R, Benders J, et al. Does compliance to patient safety tasks improve and sustain when radiotherapy treatment processes are standardized? Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2014;18(5):459-65. doi:10.1016/j.ejon.2014.05.003.
This quality improvement study found that adherence to patient safety measures while providing radiation therapy—such as verifying patient identification—increased when work processes were standardized. This finding echoes prior work in applying human factors principles to health care.