Kisling Kelly D, Ger Rachel B, Netherton Tucker J, Cardenas Carlos E, Owens Constance A, Anderson Brian M, Lee Joonsang, Rhee Dong Joo, Edward Sharbacha S, Gay Skylar S, He Yulun, David Shaquan D, Yang Jinzhong, Nitsch Paige L, Balter Peter A, Urbauer Diana L, Peterson Christine B, Court Laurence E, Dube Scott
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018 Nov;19(6):306-315. doi: 10.1002/acm2.12464. Epub 2018 Oct 1.
A large number of surveys have been sent to the medical physics community addressing many clinical topics for which the medical physicist is, or may be, responsible. Each survey provides an insight into clinical practice relevant to the medical physics community. The goal of this study was to create a summary of these surveys giving a snapshot of clinical practice patterns. Surveys used in this study were created using SurveyMonkey and distributed between February 6, 2013 and January 2, 2018 via the MEDPHYS and MEDDOS listserv groups. The format of the surveys included questions that were multiple choice and free response. Surveys were included in this analysis if they met the following criteria: more than 20 responses, relevant to radiation therapy physics practice, not single-vendor specific, and formatted as multiple-choice questions (i.e., not exclusively free-text responses). Although the results of free response questions were not explicitly reported, they were carefully reviewed, and the responses were considered in the discussion of each topic. Two-hundred and fifty-two surveys were available, of which 139 passed the inclusion criteria. The mean number of questions per survey was 4. The mean number of respondents per survey was 63. Summaries were made for the following topics: simulation, treatment planning, electron treatments, linac commissioning and quality assurance, setup and treatment verification, IMRT and VMAT treatments, SRS/SBRT, breast treatments, prostate treatments, brachytherapy, TBI, facial lesion treatments, clinical workflow, and after-hours/emergent treatments. We have provided a coherent overview of medical physics practice according to surveys conducted over the last 5 yr, which will be instructive for medical physicists.
已经向医学物理领域发送了大量调查问卷，涉及医学物理学家负责或可能负责的许多临床主题。每项调查都能让我们深入了解与医学物理领域相关的临床实践。本研究的目的是对这些调查进行总结，呈现临床实践模式的概况。本研究中使用的调查问卷是通过SurveyMonkey创建的，并于2013年2月6日至2018年1月2日通过MEDPHYS和MEDDOS邮件列表组进行分发。调查问卷的形式包括多项选择题和自由回答题。如果调查问卷符合以下标准，则纳入本分析：回复超过20份、与放射治疗物理实践相关、非特定单一供应商、且格式为多项选择题（即并非完全是自由文本回复）。虽然自由回答题的结果未明确报告，但我们对其进行了仔细审查，并在每个主题的讨论中考虑了这些回复。共有252份调查问卷，其中139份通过了纳入标准。每份调查问卷的平均问题数为4个。每份调查问卷的平均受访者人数为63人。针对以下主题进行了总结：模拟、治疗计划、电子治疗、直线加速器调试与质量保证、摆位与治疗验证、调强放疗和容积调强弧形放疗治疗、立体定向放射治疗/立体定向体部放射治疗、乳腺治疗、前列腺治疗、近距离放射治疗、全脑照射、面部病变治疗、临床工作流程以及非工作时间/紧急治疗。我们根据过去5年进行的调查，提供了医学物理实践的连贯概述，这将对医学物理学家具有指导意义。
