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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

RADT 434 - Quality Assurance and Healthcare Operations

2.00 credit hours
This course will focus on the evolution of quality management (QM) programs and continuing quality improvements in radiation oncology. A comprehensive overview of linear accelerator and CT QA will be presented. Topics covered in this course include: the radiation therapist’s role in fostering a culture of safety, daily, monthly and annual quality assurance procedures for linear accelerators and CT simulators, record keeping, and linear accelerator acceptance and commissioning. Regulatory agencies, information systems and legal issues related to quality assurance will also be presented. This course also examines the US healthcare system and provides an overview of healthcare operations with emphasis on insurance, billing, reimbursement, continuous quality improvement (CQI), project management, Human Resources, accreditation and licensing and evaluation.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to RADT Program.


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