28.1
Incident Learning and Root-Cause Analysis
28.2
Incident Learning: Clinical, National and International
28.3
The topic of patient safety and quality improvement is vast and multifaceted, but this chapter will focus on two specific techniques for maintaining and improving the quality of care: incident learning (Section 28.1) and risk analysis (Section 28.2). While not solely the domain of medical physics, this is a relevant topic for this text since a key job description of medical physicists is the oversight of quality programs in clinical practice.