Commission on Cancer Cancer Program Standards Chapter 8: Quality Improvement

Presented by M. Asa Carter, CTR, and Lina Patel-Parekh, MHA, CHE

Course Overview

This presentation provides a review of the cancer program standards and requirements presented in Chapter 8 that were established to help CoC-approved cancer programs evaluate their cancer services, patient care, and outcomes in order to make improvements that ensure patients receive care that is comparable to national standards.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, a viewer will:

• Know the basic structure of the Cancer Program Standards
• Understand the required scope of required of quality improvement activities in a CoC-approved cancer program
• Have learned quality improvement methodology that can be used locally to measure and improve care

Intended audience

This program is intended for physician and non-physician members of the cancer program team, including the cancer program administrator, cancer registrar, cancer committee chair, and cancer liaison physician.

(1.25 CE units; 1 CME credit)

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