Medical Radiation Errors

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Radiation Safety | PSNet - Agency for Healthcare …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/radiation-safety

Errors that harm patients generally involve overexposure to radiation, which can cause direct toxicity; cases of wrong-patient and wrong-site errors have also been reported. Root cause analyses of harmful radiotherapy errors often cite poor communication among providers, particularly at the treatment planning … See more

Radiation sickness - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/radiation-sickness/symptoms-causes/syc-20377058

Radiation sickness is damage to your body caused by a large dose of radiation often received over a short period of time (acute). The amount of radiation …

Errors in Radiation Therapy - National Institutes of …

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/master/borndig/101561978/Errors%20in%20radiation%20therapy.pdf

Radiation therapy is a highly regulated medical practice with historically low error and injury rates. Rare instances of radiation therapy errors resulting in severe injuries have …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Radiation errors involve overexposure to radiation and cases of wrong-patient and wrong-site identification (16). A review of 30 years of published …

Radiological Society of North America

https://www.rsna.org/-/media/files/rsna/media/dose-and-medical-radiation-errors.ashx?la=en&hash=d2d27ad72bc7cd06ea874d0a41617d80092a0b26

RSNA Statement on Radiation Doseand Medical Errors. Updated: 8. 1. 1. /202. 1. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is committed to excellence in …

Errors in Radiation Therapy | Advisory - Pennsylvania …

http://patientsafety.pa.gov/ADVISORIES/Pages/200909_87.aspx

Rare instances of radiation therapy errors resulting in severe injuries have been documented. These errors can result in devastating and sometimes fatal injuries, …

When Radiation Treatment Turns Deadly - The New York Times

https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/when-radiation-treatment-turns-deadly/

Errors in all fields of medicine can have horrendous outcomes and we need to be vigilant about preventing hospital, physician and computer errors. But patients …

Reporting On Hidden Dangers Of Medical …

https://www.npr.org/2011/05/16/136249810/reporting-on-hidden-dangers-of-medical-radiation

Bogdanich reported that many radiation errors continued for weeks because few regulations are in place to catch calibration errors. One breast cancer …

Case Studies: When Medical Radiation Goes Awry

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27RADIATIONSIDEBAR.html

Following are 18 accidents representing a variety of medical mistakes. October 2008 Prostate Glands Misidentified Five prostate cancer patients were treated …

Errors in radiation oncology: a study in pathways and

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16143793/

For conventional photon treatments, we investigated errors of incorrect source-to-surface distance (SSD), energy, omitted wedge (physical, dynamic, or universal) or …

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