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GuidelineJournal of applied clinical medical physics2025

AAPM medical physics practice guideline 13.a: HDR brachytherapy, part B.

Susan L Richardson, Arjit K Baghwala, Gil'ad N Cohen, Claire Dempsey, Bruce Libby, Christopher S Melhus, Robin A Miller, Daniel J Scanderbeg, Samantha J Simiele

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Guideline in Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. AAPM medical physics practice guideline 13.a: HDR brachytherapy, part B.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Susan L RichardsonSwedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4680-0926
Arjit K BaghwalaHouston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Gil'ad N CohenNYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Claire DempseyCalvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Bruce LibbyMoffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Christopher S MelhusTufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Robin A MillerNorthwest Medical Physics Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Daniel J ScanderbegUC San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
Samantha J SimieleUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this report is to assist the clinical medical physicist in assuring that key quality standards and practice considerations are met to ensure safe, reliable, and reproducible high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT) treatment. This guideline has been developed to provide appropriate minimum standards for such services. The secondary goal is to provide recommendations to the regulatory community from the experts to guide the adoption of regulations in the future. This MPPG is limited to iridium-192-based HDR brachytherapy and will not discuss electronic, low-dose rate, pulsed dose rate brachytherapy, or any alternative radionuclide. SCOPE: This MPPG 13a report is divided into two parts. Part A has been previously published

Indexed as

BrachytherapyHealth PhysicsNeoplasmsRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedHumansIridium RadioisotopesRadiotherapy DosageIridium RadioisotopesbrachytherapyHDRMPPGpractice guideline

Identifiers

PMID40583042
PMCPMC12256571

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