Prevalence of software alerts in radiotherapy

Highlights • Alert fatigue is induced by amount of pop up and alert messages.• Vendors of technology underestimate human factor problems.• Readability of messages is a patient safety problem.• Characterizing the alerts for different linacs and treatment types is required.

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