Technology Resource Planning in Radiation Oncology: Application of a Needs-Based Analytic Framework to Radiosurgery Planning in Ontario

摘要

Purpose:With the emergence of radiosurgery as a new radiotherapeutic technique, health care decision makers are required to allocate capital radiotherapy resources to meet both current and future radiosurgery requirements. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying an explicit, needs-based model to resource planning in radiation oncology.