Recommendations for radiographers and radiation therapists drawn from an analysis of errors on Australian Radiation Incident Registers
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Recommendations for radiographers and radiation therapists drawn from an analysis of errors on Australian Radiation Incident Registers
INTRODUCTION The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) collect reported incidents for inclusion in the Australian Radiation Incident Register (ARIR), a database of radiation incident reports that occur within Australia. While the information on previous radiation incidents is available, there is little information on the lessons that can be learned from those past ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2051-3895
DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.206