Radiation Oncology Safety Information System

NEW REPORTING SYSTEM GOES LIVE
ROSIS has developed a customised taxonomy for use in radiotherapy, which links with other major taxonomies in the areas of radiotherapy and healthcare. The initial reporting system has been revised to incorporate this taxonomy at the point of reporting, and to capture more information on radiotherapy techniques and technologies. Please log-in to view our guide to reporting, and to send a report.
What is ROSIS?
ROSIS is an acronym for "Radiation Oncology Safety Information System" and it is a voluntary web-based safety information database for radiotherapy. ROSIS enables the exchange of safety information within the radiotherapy community. The system is based on professional front-line staff in radiotherapy clinics reporting incidents and corrective actions over the Internet to a database. Reporting is confidential in relation to the reporter, clinic and country and anonymised in relation to the patient. ROSIS aims to reduce the occurrence of incidents in radiation oncology by: Enabling clinics to share reports on incidents with other clinics as well as with other stakeholders such as scientific and professional bodies Collecting and analysing information on the occurrence, detection, severity and correction of radiotherapy related incidents Disseminating these results and generally promoting awareness of incidents and a safety culture in radiation oncology. Radiotherapy professionals can learn from the types of mistakes submitted to ROSIS. ROSIS is an independent, voluntary reporting and learning system; nonetheless lessons from ROSIS can be noted by policy makers and regulators. Over the past year, publications by international organisations (WHO, UNSCEAR, ICRP) have used ROSIS reports to highlight particular issues or to learn from incidents in RO. See ROSIS Newsletter 6.
Learning from ROSIS
Reading the incident reports in their original format is probably the most basic form of learning, but the narratives can be very effective at proving the existence of mistakes and how easily they can occur in any department. All "old" ROSIS incident reports are available under the main menu heading "ROSIS Safety Information". All "new" ROSIS incident reports are available in the member's area once you log-in to the system. You can search this online database under predefined headings. Further search options will be provided in due course. The full anonymised database can be provided to individual researchers or research organisations on request. Please contact us for more information. ROSIS provides themed lessons through database analysis leading to the publication of spotlight cases or newsletters, and scientific publications and presentations.

NEW REPORTING SYSTEM GOES LIVE

What is ROSIS?

Learning from ROSIS