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Safety Considerations in Radiotherapy

Considering healthcare we have to face ourselves with an uncomfortable truth: mistakes happen. These mistakes can lead not only to injuries of the exposed individuals but even to death. Radiotherapy is widely recognized as one of the safest treatments of modern medicine. Errors happen rarely, but the consequences of the errors can be significant. Following the ‘no blame policy’, radiotherapy professionals are encouraged to report any adverse event that they are aware of during their routine work, with the intention of learning from the mistakes. The European Medical Exposure Directive 1997 (Council Directive 97/43/Euratom) makes reporting and learning from incidents a legal requirement and states that all radiotherapy practices should include a prospective risk analysis of all the processes involved as a part of their Quality Assurance programme.

radiotherapy ; radiatin safety ; risk assessment

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