Identifying best practices for RTTs and dosimetrists: a Delphi consensus study on standardizing workflows in proton therapy
J.J. Jacobs, E. van Weerd, A.M. Moerman, Y.L.B. Klaver, C. Xavier, M. Høyer, E.G.C. Troost, V. Nguyen, L. Jørgensen, M. Zorneth, S. Kelly, J. Thiele, N. Bizzocchi, H. Bijwaard, M.S. Hoogeman · 2026
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Jacobs and co-authors (2026) convene Europe's proton therapy experts to agree on how the daily work should be done. Proton therapy aims dose at tumors with unusual precision. Yet recent reviews found its guidelines thin exactly where radiation therapists and dosimetrists do the work. Those are the staff who position patients and compute dose. Twenty-six candidate best-practice statements came out of a workshop, covering seven workflows in European proton centers. The authors tested them with a Delphi process.
Forty experts from fifteen centers scored each statement over three rounds on a five-point scale. Agreement above two thirds counted as consensus, above eighty percent as strong. The results highlight where practice already aligns and where centers diverge. Written consensus gives new centers a standard to adopt and gives the field a baseline: proton therapy's precision is physical, and this study pursues the same precision in procedure.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | J.J. Jacobs, E. van Weerd, A.M. Moerman, Y.L.B. Klaver, C. Xavier, M. Høyer, E.G.C. Troost, V. Nguyen, L. Jørgensen, M. Zorneth, S. Kelly, J. Thiele, N. Bizzocchi, H. Bijwaard, M.S. Hoogeman |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |