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Define quality assurance
✓ ~: all planned and proactive processes, techniques, and actions necessary to ensure
adequate confidence that product or service meets the requirements for quality
define a quality audit
✓ ~: review of the radiation therapy process that is routinely and continuously measured,
the results analyzed, and corrective action taken as required to ensure quality patient care
who performs a quality audit?
✓ ~: they are performed by personnel not directly responsible for the areas being audited
define continuous quality improvement
✓ ~: a set of philosophies, methodologies, and tools for continuous quality improvement
efforts.
what are some examples of CQI programs?
✓ ~: -Lean
-Six Sigma
what is one way that a radiation oncology department can keep up with new information to
improve quality of patient care?
, Elscores19/08/2024 14:27:30
✓ ~: improved methods of cancer patient management are frequently documented by
clinical trial reports and peer reviewed publications. Hence, departments can keep up with
patient safety through reports.
define a quality indicator
✓ ~: -it is a measurement tool used to evaluate an organizations performance
-help focus attention on opportunities for improved patient care
what are some examples of quality indicators?
✓ ~: -set up tolerances (example: set up ranges for acceptable shifts)
-having quality control programs for simulators, treatment units
-written and signed prescriptions
-approved treatment plans
-weekly review of portal films by a radiation therapist
-more indicators on pg. 369 WL
define risk
✓ ~: product of the "probability of occurrence of error" and "the severity of that error"
define outcomes
✓ ~: result of the performance, or lack of performance of a process
explain culture of safety
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