Producing effective treatment, enhancing safety: medical physicists' strategies to ensure quality in radiotherapy.

Adelaide Nascimento; Pierre Falzon

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Producing effective treatment, enhancing safety: medical physicists' strategies to ensure quality in radiotherapy.

September 19, 2012

Nascimento A, Falzon P. Appl Ergon. 2012;43(4):777-84.

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This study uses human factors engineering approaches to examine how medical physicists ensure patient safety when planning radiotherapy treatments.

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