Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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Practice Guideline Guideline
Quality assurance in radiotherapy. European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Advisory Report to the Commission of the European Union for the 'Europe Against Cancer Programme'.
This document is now in the process of being endorsed by all National Scientific Societies of Radiotherapy and Medical Physics of the European countries. It can therefore not be formally considered as the definitive version and is still susceptible to benefit from further alterations or improvements.
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The European radiotherapy society has for many years had a great interest in quality assurance. The EORTC radiotherapy group has put enormous effort into its quality assurance programmes. ⋯ In 1992, in the radiotherapy department in Leiden, a project was started to develop a quality assurance system based on the so-called ISO 9001 quality standards. This paper describes how these standards can be applied to create a quality assurance system in a hospital department.