Journey toward high reliability: a comprehensive safety program to improve quality of care and safety culture in a large, multisite radiation oncology department.

Kristina Demas Woodhouse; Edna Volz; Amit Maity; Peter E. Gabriel; Timothy D. Solberg; Howard W. Bergendahl; Stephen M. Hahn

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Journey toward high reliability: a comprehensive safety program to improve quality of care and safety culture in a large, multisite radiation oncology department.

September 27, 2017

Woodhouse KD, Volz E, Maity A, et al. J Oncol Pract. 2016;12(5).

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To minimize error in health care, improvement efforts have sought to learn from high reliability industries such as aviation and nuclear power. This study describes the implementation of a multifaceted safety program and its impact in reducing radiation errors in the department of radiation oncology at a single academic medical center.

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