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Using Standardized Electronic Pathology and Surgery Data to Inform Clinical Quality Improvement and Health System Planning

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Background: Practice variation in diagnosis and treatment exists between clinicians and jurisdictions across Canada. This variation can impact the quality of care that patients receive and patient outcomes. Knowledge of… Click to show full abstract

Background: Practice variation in diagnosis and treatment exists between clinicians and jurisdictions across Canada. This variation can impact the quality of care that patients receive and patient outcomes. Knowledge of the scale and type of variation is the first step to developing action plans to improve consistency and enhance patient care. Aim: We aimed to establish a method by which to examine the magnitude of practice variation between clinicians and interjurisdictionally within the cancer system. We leveraged and derived evidence from discrete pathology data collected by five Canadian jurisdictions at the point of care to identify areas to improve quality of cancer care services and to direct patient care. Methods: Fifty pathologists, surgeons, and medical oncologists from 10 jurisdictions conferred to leverage literature and data standards (developed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP)) to create 48 descriptive and outcome indicators related to five cancers: breast, lung, colorectal, end...

Keywords: quality; variation; system; pathology; care; using standardized

Journal Title: Journal of Global Oncology
Year Published: 2018

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