Purpose Quality assurance (QA) practices improve the quality level of oncology trials by
ensuring that the protocol is followed and the results are valid and reproducible. This study …

Quality assurance (QA) for radiation therapy (RT) in clinical trials is necessary to ensure
treatment is safely and effectively administered. QA assurance requires however substantial …

PURPOSE: In the context of national calls for reorganizing cancer clinical trials, the National
Cancer Institute sponsored a 2-day workshop to examine challenges and opportunities for …

Quality assurance remains a neglected component of many trials, particularly for technical
interventions, such as surgery and radiotherapy, for which quality of treatment is an …

Purpose To review the various radiation therapy quality assurance (RTQA) procedures used
by the Global Clinical Trials RTQA Harmonization Group (GHG) steering committee …

There is worldwide evidence to justify the inclusion of radiotherapy quality assurance
programmes as an integral part of clinical trial protocols [1e5]. They serve to improve …

Purpose To explore site-and clinician-level factors associated with protocol violations
requiring real-time-review (RTR) resubmission in a multicenter clinical trial to help tailor …

Background Noncompliance with radiotherapy (RT) protocol guidelines has been linked to
inferior clinical outcomes. We performed a meta-analysis of cooperative group trials to …

Assessing quality of cancer care has become a national priority, particularly in the field of
radiation oncology, where there have been rapid changes in practice over the past decade …

OBJECTIVE: Quality assurance (QA) in clinical trials is essential to ensure treatment is safely
and effectively delivered. As QA requirements have increased in complexity in parallel with …