Patients per linac
– 10 minutes
| 11.84%
9
|
– 12 minutes
| 7.89%
6
|
– 15 minutes
| 80.26%
61
|
| TOTAL | 76 |
Comments(9) | |
How much time do you schedule for routine new patient starts?
- Answered: 73
- Skipped: 6
15 minutes30 minutes45 minutes60 minutes
– 15 minutes
| 16.44%
12
|
– 30 minutes
| 75.34%
55
|
– 45 minutes
| 5.48%
4
|
– 60 minutes
| 2.74%
2
|
| TOTAL | 73 |
Comments(10) | |
How many routine patients per day do you treat on one linac?
- Answered: 78
- Skipped: 1
101520253035404550
– 10
| 1.28%
1
|
– 15
| 6.41%
5
|
– 20
| 15.38%
12
|
– 25
| 39.74%
31
|
– 30
| 20.51%
16
|
– 35
| 8.97%
7
|
– 40
| 5.13%
4
|
– 45
| 1.28%
1
|
– 50
| 1.28%
1
|
| TOTAL | 78 |
Comments(8) | |
How do you accomodate non-routine treatments such as SBRT, SRS, TBI, etc?
- Answered: 61
- Skipped: 18
We try to schedule in an open 30 minute slot. If that is not possible, we warn our other patients that we will be running behind and offer to reschedule them.
11/3/2015
08:51 PM
We have another LINAC for SRS/SBRT
10/19/2015
08:22 PM
Make each appointment 1 hour instead of 30 mins. Book during lunch or in afternoon.
10/19/2015
05:03 PM
We schedule stereotactic treatments into 1-hr time slots
10/19/2015
02:42 PM
Block multiple slots
10/19/2015
02:18 PM
not done at our site
10/19/2015
01:22 PM
After hours
10/19/2015
01:05 PM
Treat at lunch or schedule 1 hr. Try not to put at end of clinic day due to low staffing levels.
10/17/2015
12:50 AM
We only do routine treatments.
10/16/2015
11:22 PM
When we start SBRT, we expect to schedule 1.5 hr at end of day for first few patients. Once staff is comfortable with procedure, try to go to 1 hr during day - but therapists protesting because it would screw up the schedule on non-SBRT days.
10/16/2015
09:35 PM
Please add any comment regarding scheduling patient treatments/start and optimizing linac utilization.
- Answered: 15
- Skipped: 64
some patients get two 10min Slots (double sided breast for example)
10/19/2015
01:22 PM
Complex IMRT gets double-slot (30 mins). Daily CBCT patients also get double-slot because MDs review CBCT at the machine before tx. May double-book breast/electron patients to fit everything in 10 hr day.
10/16/2015
09:35 PM
New starts are easier to do when scheduled at the end of the day. Also can double book if there are many electron routine cases as they take less time for setup and treatment
10/16/2015
05:33 PM
Our therapists schedule the treatments with the patients with an attempt to consider the patient's availability. This does not optimize linac utilization.
10/16/2015
03:55 PM
Therapists responsible for scheduling.
10/16/2015
02:50 PM
We have two matched linacs so can easily move patients from one linac to the other to accommodate scheduling changes.
10/16/2015
02:41 PM
We shuffle patients as needed also.
10/16/2015
02:10 PM
Linacs can to 50pts, but nobody's happy. Therapists have no breaks and short lunches, and physicists are consigned to early or late.
10/16/2015
01:39 PM
Patients are not pre-scheduled, they are called to start once the plan is done, unless prior arrangements with chemo have been made. Each patient is scheduled for a 30 min verification simulation (dry run) then they start tx's the following day. Exceptions to this would be an electron, simple spine or an inpatient in a lot of pain, where we v sim and tx in the same session. We tired to schedule V sims from 11-1pm, but now we just schedule them wherever we can.
10/16/2015
01:09 PM
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