Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System.

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Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System.

October 12, 2016

Center for Assessment of Radiological Sciences. 4913 Wuakesha Street, Madison,WI 53705. 608-345-5795. Email: brthomad@cars-pso.org.

Patient Safety Organizations enable robust data collection and analysis to support learning from medical error. This website of a Patient Safety Organization dedicated to radiation safety improvement offers a mechanism for voluntary reporting of radiation oncology incident data, a searchable database, and related publications.

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