J C Greenwalt, A M Grietens, L O'steen, O M E E Mahmoud
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): Reduction of medical errors and tracking the impact of a safety checklist on decreasing treatment delays and unplanned radiation treatment breaks. MATERIALS/METHODS: Between 2018 and 2020, a pre-simulation patient checklist was crosschecked by the nurse, physician, therapist, dosimetrist, and physicist teams on all patients after initial consultation. Example items included presence of pacemaker, complete lab and pregnancy testing, revised pathology, correct laterality, consent completion, the accuracy of CT simulation orders/dose prescription and their concordance in the electronic medical record The reported errors and their severity were compared before (2018) and after (2020) implementation of the check list...
November 1, 2021: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics