SASQART: South African standards for quality assurance in radiotherapy

The SASQART practice guidelines were set forth by the South African Medical Physics Society & South African Association of Physicists in Medicine and Biology. The intended purpose of this document and the individual topic-specific sections is to provide guidelines as to a minimum set of tests, result tolerances and a minimum frequency of these tests to be performed by medical physicists and radiation therapy staff in a radiation oncology department to promote patient safety. The tests, tolerances and frequencies from the international references have been adapted to realistically reflect the South African working environment and resource availability, while maintaining the highest clinical and scientific quality of care achievable. Contribution: Replaces the 2014 guidelines, establishing recommended quality assurance standards for radiation oncology in South Africa.