Lower doses of radiation to normal tissues means a tremendous reduction in side effects. IMRT incorporates several beams coming from different angles to envelope the tumor and the dose intensity of each beam is modulated by changing the shape of the fields during treatment.
For healthcare providers and their employees, ongoing uncertainty can lower employee engagement, which in turn can have a negative effect on organizational success and patient care.
These are high impact patient safety structural measures with more than two decades of evidence providing evidence that higher staffing levels are associated with lower rates of patient death and harm. They have been identified as priority measures for public reporting to evaluate hospital quality.