Purpose The Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System (RO-ILS) receives event reports
from facilities across the country. This effort extracted common error pathways seen in the …

Background: Practice guidelines recommend palliative care for patients with advanced
cancer, but gaps in access and quality of care persist. Objective: To increase goals-of-care (GOC) …

The treatment of patients with HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer (HPV-OPC) is rapidly
evolving and challenging the standard of care of definitive radiotherapy with concurrent …

Big data research refers to the collection and analysis of large sets of data elements and
interrelationships that are difficult to process with traditional methods. It can be considered a …

There has been growing emphasis on quality measures and process analysis techniques
that may be implemented in the daily practice of radiation oncology to improve the overall …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder characterized by rigidity, tremor, and
bradykinesia, originating from degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN)…

Purpose/Objective(s) Accurate diagnosis of human papillomavirus (HPV) status in oropharyngeal
squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) affects prognosis and can alter the treatment plan. …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in slowness, tremors,
and imbalance. Treatment of mice with 1‐methyl‐4‐phenyl‐1,2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forced a re-design of care in
radiation oncology. Perhaps more than any other disease site we commonly see, the evaluation …

Health care is at a critical moment. High rates of medical errors and decreasing quality of
health care make it crucial that organizations focus on quality improvement (QI). For this work to …