Journey toward high reliability: a comprehensive safety program to improve quality of care and safety culture in a large, multisite radiation oncology department.
Woodhouse KD, Volz E, Maity A, et al. Journey Toward High Reliability: A Comprehensive Safety Program to Improve Quality of Care and Safety Culture in a Large, Multisite Radiation Oncology Department. J Oncol Pract. 2016;12(5). doi:10.1200/jop.2015.008466.
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.