Online Education Center for Cancer Programs: Promoting Quality Care

Improving Quality at Your Facility Using the National Cancer Data Base

Presented by Lina Patel-Parekh, MHA, CHE

Course Overview

This presentation provides participants with a primer of quality improvement theory and its relationship to the healthcare system, specifically, cancer patient care. Participants will explore ways to measure, design, implement and evaluate quality improvement practices at the local level. The presentation will also utilize NCDB resources such as the NCDB Public and Hospital Comparison Benchmark Reports and the Cancer Program Practice Profile Reports to foster quality improvement projects to help meet CoC cancer program standards requirements.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, a viewer will:

Be familiar with the CoC's efforts in helping facilities improve the quality of care at the local level
Understand how cancer programs can use the NCDB Web tools for examining, monitoring, planning, and evaluating quality improvement efforts
Understand how quality improvement concepts and tools can be applied toward improving cancer patient care

Intended Audience

This program is intended for members of the cancer program team including registrars, administrators, cancer liaison physicians, medical staff, and nurses as well as quality department staff and allied health professionals involved in cancer quality improvement projects.

(1.25 CE units; 1 CME credit)

Online Education Center for Cancer Programs