Advanced Technology QA Center

先进技术质量保证中心

• 批准号: 7919183
• 负责人: Jeff M Michalski
• 金额: $ 161.85万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7919183
• 关键词: Architecture; Archives; Bioinformatics; Biology; Brachytherapy; Caring; Clinical Trials; Clinical Trials Cooperative Group; Clinical trial protocol document; Collaborations; Computer software; Conformal Radiotherapy; Credentialing; Custom; Data; Data Collection; Databases; Development; Electronic Health Record; Environment; Evaluation; Evolution; Future; Goals; Image; Information Management; Institution; Instruction; Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy; Link; Maintenance; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical Informatics; Medicine; Methods; Modality; Online Systems; Organ; Outcome; Physics; Procedures; Process; Protocols documentation; Radiation Oncology; Radiation Therapy Oncology Group; Radiation therapy; Radiosurgery; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Services; System; Technology; Testing; Therapy Clinical Trials; Training and Education; Vision; base; design; digital; electronic data; image guided therapy; improved; meetings; multidisciplinary; multimodality; novel; open source; programs; quality assurance; tool; treatment planning; tumor

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Technology QA Center Our plan is to capitalize on the infrastructure and strengths of the nation's existing quality assurance (QA) programs that comprise our Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC), including the Image-Guided Therapy Center (ITC), Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), Radiological Physics Center (RPC), and the Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC) to maintain/develop an advanced medical informatics infrastructure that provides an environment in which institutions can submit, and QA Centers can receive, share, and analyze volumetric multimodality imaging/treatment planning/verification (ITPV) digital data. Specifically, we will (1) maintain/manage (and make incremental improvements as required to) the current electronic data submission of advanced technology (3DCRT, IMRT, SBRT, and brachytherapy) protocol credentialing and case data, archival storage, and remote QA review process utilizing ATC Method-1 (now referred to as the QuASAR-1 (Quality Assurance Submission, Analysis, and Review-1) system); (2) develop novel web-based remote-review tools that will enhance the efficient and effective review of protocols utilizing advanced technologies. The design infrastructure of these tools will assist the development of future protocol processes such as image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and adaptive radiation therapy (ART). The proposed system is referred to as QuASAR-2 and will be modular in design to promote efficient tools and subsystems development that achieve compatibility with existing software standards, including the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) and DICOM RT, and maintain/develop archival ITPV, credentialing/QA databases that can be linked with the cooperative group's clinical outcomes database; (3) assist cooperative groups in the development and management of advanced technology clinical trials protocols including (a) tumor/target volume and organ at risk definitions; (b) credentialing requirements and evaluation criteria; (c) electronic data submission requirements/instructions; (d) QA review procedures; and (4) serve as an educational resource to the nation's clinical trial cooperative groups and participating institutions for support of advanced technology radiation therapy clinical trials. Our ATC QA consortium approach will help avoid duplication of service/developmental efforts and promote development of uniform credentialing/QA criteria for clinical trials throughout all Cooperative Groups.

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