The impact of radiation treatment planning technique on unplanned hospital admissions

Purpose: Treatment burdens and toxicities related to palliative radiation therapy (RT) may lead to unplanned hospital admissions (UHAs). The likelihood for these toxicities may be related to treatment technique. We compared rates of UHA between patients receiving nonconformal (2-dimensional) and con...

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Main Authors: Sanders Chang, MS, Meng Ru, MS, Erin L. Moshier, MS, Madhu Mazumdar, PhD, Doran Ricks, MSN, RN, MBA, Nathan E. Goldstein, MD, Juan P. Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH, Kavita V. Dharmarajan, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Advances in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452109418301210