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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Radiother Oncol. 2014 May 8;111(3):327–329. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.03.023

Table 1.

RTQA within each of the current GHG steering committee members as of August 2013.

GHG member Year of RTQA implementation Current human resources Current number of intergroup trials and RTQA projects
EORTC–ROG 1982 Full time: 1 radiation oncologist, 1 medical physicist, 1 radiation technologist 9
In kind: ROG members
IAEA 1969 Full time: 4 radiation oncologists, 3 medical physicists, 1 lab technician, administrative support, an individual data management centre per trial 11
In kind: 1 Medical Physicist
ITC 1994 Full time: 2 medical physicists, 2 informaticists, 3 data managers 45
JCOG 1999 In kind: 18 radiation oncologists, 12 medical physicists 5
RTTQA 1987 Full time: 1 radiation oncologist, 3 medical physicists, 3 radiation technologists 6
Part-time: 1 radiation oncologist, 17 medical physicists, 3 radiation technologists, 1 dosimetrist, 2 IT support, 1 administrative support
In kind: 3 medical physicists
QARC 1980 Full-time:1.5 Radiation Oncologists, 0.5 Medical Physicist, 4.1 Research Dosimetrists, 4 Informatics Support Personnel, 9.5 Data Managers, 3 Administrative Support Personnel. 54
RPC 1968 Full time: 7 medical physicists, 3.5 research dosimetrists, 3 IT support, 6 administrative support employees, 5 optically-stimulated/thermoluminescent dosimeter technicians, 4 physicist assistants, 0.5 machinist 50
RTOG 1968 Full time: 2 medical physicists, 5 dosimetrists, 1 data assistant & credentialing, 1 administrative support 67
TROG 1989 Full time: 1 manager, 1 radiation therapist, 0.4 medical physicist, 1 research officer, 0.5 IT support. For software support: 1 programmer, 1 physicist 9
In kind: TROG members