[Events and errors in radiation oncology: Conciliating perspectives to support care].

The term "event" covers a wide range of concrete situations in radiation oncology, from particularly intense radiation-related side effects to the possibility of technical or human error. Although quality procedures are an integral part of radiotherapy oncology department operations ensuring the analysis and prevention of such events, their occurrence during radiation treatment still has a significant impact on patients and their experience of the treatment process, as well as on health professionals. These practical, emotional and symbolic impacts are all the greater when the event occurs in the aftermath of an error.

[Ethical stakes of information in radiation oncology: Thinking the risk and building the therapeutic alliance].

Informing patients before receiving radiation therapy is a fundamental ethical imperative. As a condition of the possibility of autonomy, information allows people to make health decisions concerning themselves, which is required by French law. This information includes in particular the potential risks due to radiation therapy.

[Ethical competence of the radiation therapist in the management of a crisis].

Many situations can be considered as a crisis in radiotherapy (failure of equipment, absenteeism, excessive workload, errors, urgent care, pandemic, etc.). Such events are defined as difficult situations in the course of daily activity, they can at any time escape the vigilance of the concerned actors when they are not prepared for it.

The contribution of French patient and consumer groups to health technology assessments over a 2-year period: an observational retrospective study.

Background: In 2017, The French National Authority for Health (HAS) created an open, online, systematic contribution process to enable patient and consumer groups (PCGs) to contribute to health technology assessment (HTA) carried out to aid public authorities in reimbursement and pricing decision making.

Objectives: This retrospective study analyzes how French PCGs contributed to the HTA process within the HAS for the first 2 years of this new mechanism.

Methods: PCG contributions received between 01 January 2017 and 31 December 2018 and the recording of deliberations leading to reports of the corresponding HTAs were included.

[From incidentaloma to secondary discovery].

The term incidentaloma, created in 1982, has spread throughout medical literature. However, there does not seem to be a precise definition to describe what an incidentaloma is. In the initial uses, the word incidentaloma systematically designated a mass that was detected during an imaging examination prescribed for diagnostic purposes unrelated to the reason for carrying out the examination.