Premium
SU‐E‐T‐57: Comprehensive Web‐Based QA in Radiation Oncology
Author(s) -
Kildea J,
Anjum M. N.,
Evans M,
Parker W
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.3612008
Subject(s) - radiation oncology , perl , web application , visualization , scripting language , medical physics , computer science , process (computing) , world wide web , medicine , data science , radiation therapy , data mining , operating system
Purpose: To describe a framework for comprehensive web‐based QA in medical physics and radiation oncology through centralized access to multiple databases. We believe that this form of centralized QA represents the future direction for data analysis and visualization in increasingly data‐driven radiation oncology and medical physics practises. Methods and Materials: Our paperless radiation oncology clinic, equipped with a centralized webserver running PERL scripts for access to the Varian ARIA record‐and‐verify database and a custom MySQL database for medical physics QA data, adverse event reports and in‐house clinical trial data. Results: Our planned framework for comprehensive electronic QA is outlined and some early results showing the power of the system for analysing treatment times and for statistical process control are presented. Conclusions: Comprehensive web‐based QA represents the future direction for data archiving and visualization in the medical physics and radiation oncology community. We present our framework for web‐based QA and demonstrate its power with some early results.