Quality Management 2017

The new volumetric radiotherapy: the need for new process indicators (2010)

“Radiation oncology has a long history of leadership in quality of care

assessment and continues to work toward defining consensus QIs and

appropriate metrics derived from QIs. This is complicated by the continual

introduction of complex quality and safety issues by the rapidly emerging

technologies that are central to the field ».

The new volumetric radiotherapy (SBRT & IGRT, IMRT & IGRT, VMAT,

robotic RT), contrary to 2D and 3D radiotherapy, is not based on number of

fields per treatment, shaped fields od portal vision feasibility because all

these features are in the concept of volumetric radiotherapy; because that, we

need for new indicators.