ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S2791

Interdisciplinary - Health economics & health services research

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

Treatment-related changes coincided with the pandemic period and a changed influx of patients, which in different ways affected the number of patients treated and fractions delivered. In-depth understanding of the consequences of workflow changes in RT, especially events relating to organization and technology, may require other documentation than what is reflected in commonly-used quantitative data.

Keywords: Workflows, Periodic changes, Qualitative analysis

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Patient Safety in German Radiation Oncology (PaSaGeRO): A Review on Patient Safety Indicators.

Andrea Baehr 1 , Maximilian Grohmann 1 , Eva Christalle 2 , Isabelle Scholl 2

1 University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hamburg, Germany. 2 University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Medical Psychology, Hamburg, Germany

Purpose/Objective:

Errors within the process of radiation oncology can lead to adverse events, potentially even to fatal outcomes(1,2). Consequently, the issue of patient safety (PS) within radiotherapy holds significant importance. The PaSaGeRO study aims to establish a set of PS indicators tailored specifically for radiotherapy and furthermore to develop a questionnaire as a digital assessment tool for all radiation oncology departments. Safety indicators are meant to be measurements to assess structures, processes, and outcomes in healthcare, and measuring tools or flags to monitor or improve patient safety(3). The herby presented preliminary data from a structured literature review