PURPOSE This study identifies accident sequences from the past accidents in order to help the risk analysis application to the external radiotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study reviews 59 accidental cases in two retrospective safety analyses that have collected the incidents in the external radiotherapy extensively. Two accident analysis reports that accumulated past incidents are inves...

OBJECTIVE Accidental injuries are frequent and their socioeconomic consequences enormous. The present study aimed to identify predictors of the number of days of leave taken in a consecutively selected group of accident victims who sustained severe, mostly life-threatening physical trauma. METHOD One hundred patients with severe accidental injuries who were referred to a trauma surgeons' inte...

This research applies a concept of system control for safety to the accident analysis in two ways. The first part deals with accident cause analysis, while the second part deals with the accident analysis in the defense-in-depth approach. The summary is shown below. For the detail, please refer to the corresponding chapter in the above book or contact with Dr. Kohda (E-mail: [email protected]...