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标题：Prioritization of Failures in Radiation Therapy Delivery
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作者：Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi ; Afshin Jamshidi ; Daoud Ait-kadi 等
期刊名称：IFAC PapersOnLine
印刷版ISSN：2405-8963
出版年度：2016
卷号：49
期号：12
页码：1898-1903
DOI：10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.907
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：There is high level of risks and failures in radiation therapy delivery system for many reasons. These small failures in the system may cause major harms. Radiology failure mode and effect analysis (R-FMEA) is a qualitative risk assessment tool to proactively identify risks that threaten patients in a healthcare process. The main purpose of R-FMEA is correcting potential failures prior to adverse events occur. However, currently used R-FMEA has some major shortcomings. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for radiation therapy delivery in oncology setting to overcome these shortcomings. Results of application of the proposed framework in a real case study showed that, our proposed framework can minimize the future occurrence of failures. Then, it will improve patients’ and personnel’s safety in the radiology department consequently.
关键词：Failures’ identificationPrioritizationFuzzy logicPatients’ safetyRadiation therapyOncology setting