JAPANESE STRUCTURE SURVEY OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY IN 2007(SECOND REPORT)

• TESHIMA Teruki

  Department of Medical Physics & Engineering, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

• NUMASAKI Hodaka

  Department of Medical Physics & Engineering, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

• SHIBUYA Hitoshi

  Department of Radiology, Tokyo Dental and Medical University

• NISHIO Masamichi

  Department of Radiology,National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Cancer Center

• IKEDA Hiroshi

  Department of Radiation Oncology, Sakai Municipal Hospital

• SEKIGUCHI Kenji

  Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Luke’s International Hospital

• KAMIKONYA Norihiko

  Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine

• KOIZUMI Masahiko

  Oncology Center, Osaka University Hospital

• TAGO Masao

  Department of Radiology, Toho University Omori Medical Center

• ANDO Yutaka

  Department of Medical Informatics, Heavy Ion Medical Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences

• TSUKAMOTO Nobuhiro

  Department of Radiation Oncology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center

• TERAHARA Atsuro

  Department of Radiology, University of Tokyo Hospital

• NAKAMURA Katsumasa

  Department of Radiology, Kyushu University Hospital at Beppu

• MITSUMORI Michihide

  Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University

• NISHIMURA Tetsuo

  Division of Radiation Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center

• HAREYAMA Masato

  Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 全国放射線治療施設の2007年定期構造調査報告(第 2 報)

Abstract

A national structure survey of radiation oncology in 2007 using questionnaires was conducted from March 2008 to January 2009 by JASTRO. The response rate was 721 out of 765 (94.2%). Annual patient load/FTE (full time equivalent) for radiation oncologists was 248.2. The corresponding data according to the institutional stratification, including more than or equal to 1 FTE radiation oncologist (A) or less than 1 (B), were 212.9 and 157.0 (calculated as FTE=1 to avoid overestimation in B institutions), respectively. More than 300 patients/FTE radiation oncologists (warning level for decline in the quality of care) were treated in one-fourth of the A institutions. The data/radiotherapy technologists were 125.5. In designated cancer care hospitals, larger numbers of cancer patients were treated with more functionally sophisticated linac and CT simulator than in other hospitals. Geographically, there was a significant variation in patient load/FTE radiation oncologists from 130.7 to 391.6. As for radiotherapy technologists, a variation from 87.3 to 258.6 was also observed. The number of cancer patients/ linac exceeded 400/year (warning level) in the institutions with heavy load/FTE radiation oncologists more than or equal to 300/year (A) and in those where the number of new patients was more than or equal to 800/year.

Journal

• The Journal of JASTRO

  The Journal of JASTRO 21 (3), 127-138, 2009

  Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Keywords

• Structure survey
• Radiotherapy facility
• Radiotherapy personnel

Details

• CRID: 1390282679307421568
• NII Article ID: 10027260365
• NII Book ID: AN10123988
• DOI: 10.11182/jastro.21.127
• ISSN: 18819885
• ISSN: 10409564
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2010080076
• Text Lang: ja
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