Assessment of performance indicators of a radiotherapy department using an electronic medical record system.

Aim: To retrospectively assess the performance indicators of our radiotherapy department and their temporal trends, using a commercially available electronic-medical-record (EMR) system.

Background: A recent trend in healthcare quality is to define and evaluate performance indicators of the service provided.

Materials And Methods: Patient and external-beam-radiotherapy-treatments data were retrieved using the Mosaiq EMR system from 1-January-2012 till 31-December-2015.