{"id":3624,"date":"2018-03-20T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisma-rt.nl\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3624"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:07:32","slug":"comprehensive-quality-management-in-radiotherapy-risk-management-and-patient-safety","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.prisma-rt.nl\/en\/event\/comprehensive-quality-management-in-radiotherapy-risk-management-and-patient-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Quality Management in Radiotherapy \u2013 Risk Management and Patient Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN RADIOTHERAPY \u2013 RISK MANAGEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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04-07 November, 2018<\/div>\n
Athens, Greece<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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TARGET GROUP<\/h3>\n

The course is aimed at radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation technologists, quality managers and any other health professional interested in risk management and patient safety.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong>
\nThis course is part of a two year cycle on quality management in radiotherapy, consisting of two complementary modules:
\n\u2022\u00a0 Risk management and patient safety
\n\u2022\u00a0 Quality improvement and indicators.
\nIndustrial and medical activities expose operators, patients and the general public to the risk of accidents that cause corporal or environmental damage (or both). Harm to operators is very uncommon in radiotherapy, but harm to patients has happened in the past and has had considerable press coverage in many European countries. These widely publicised accidents have focused the attention of both the radiotherapy house and the regulatory authorities on the appropriate preventive actions that could be taken to avoid their repetition.
\nFortunately, accidents that actually result in harm to patients are rare. Conversely, small irregularities in the radiotherapy process are very frequent, many hundred a year in every department. A key to the understanding of the genesis of accidents is the fact that these small irregularities (called precursors), as benign as they seem to be when considered isolated, can mesh together to result in a fully developed accident. An accident is not the result of very uncommon irregularities, it is the coincidence of very common irregularities that unfortunately occur at a given point in time.<\/p>\n

FACULTY<\/h3>\n

Course director<\/em><\/strong>
\nPierre Scalliet,\u00a0Radiation Oncologist, UCL Cliniques Universitaires St.Luc, Brussels (BE)<\/em><\/p>\n

Teachers<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Dunscombe,\u00a0Medical Physicist, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary (CA)<\/em>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tommy Kn\u00f6\u00f6s,\u00a0Medical Physicist, Sk\u00e4ne University Hospital, Lund (SE)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0 Nicolas Pourel, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Sainte-Catherine, Avignon (FR)<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Petra Reijnders-Thyssen,\u00a0Manager Patient Safety, Maastro Clinic, Maastricht (NL)<\/em>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aude Vaandering,\u00a0Radiation Technologist, UCL Cliniques Universitaires St.Luc, Brussels (BE)<\/em><\/p>\n

Local organisers<\/em><\/strong>
\nEfi Koutsouveli,\u00a0Medical Physicist, Hygeia Hospital, Athens<\/em>
\nVassilios Kouloulias, Radiation Oncologist, University of Athens<\/em><\/p>\n

COURSE AIM\/RATIONALE<\/h3>\n

Though accidents are rare and, above all, difficult to prevent, this course however aims to identify their precursors. Actively working on these precursors (registration, description, classification), and working on improvements in the radiotherapy process (prevention) is an efficient way to greatly decrease the risk of accidents. In some European countries it is even mandatory to record and report on precursors.
\nIn addition, the course will also discuss preventive analysis that can be done on any radiotherapy process, by trying to identify critical elements that need specific monitoring or quality controls (failure mode analysis).
\nAn efficient incident recording system presupposes a good communication in the department. Elements of communication are therefore also discussed during the course with a final role play as an illustration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN RADIOTHERAPY \u2013 RISK MANAGEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY 04-07 November, 2018 Athens, Greece TARGET GROUP The course is aimed at radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation technologists, quality managers and any other health professional interested in risk management and patient safety. Background This course is part of a two year cycle on quality management in radiotherapy, consisting of two complementary modules: \u2022\u00a0 Risk… <\/p>\n

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