The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) and the National Cancer Database (NCDB) developed the NCDB Quality Reporting Tools to provide CoC-accredited cancer programs with mechanisms to evaluate the cancer care delivered to their patients and assess comparatively to those treated at other CoC-accredited cancer programs. The information generated from these useful tools allow CoC programs to perform internal quality review and monitoring of care.
The NCDB Quality Reporting Tools include:
Permissible use:
Non-Permissible use:
Reporting Conditions:
For any questions about the reporting policies or the information above, please direct all questions to ncdb@facs.org.
Cell sizes less than 10
Not permissible
My hospital only report
Permissible
Aggregate Report
Permissible
Comparison report
Not permissible
Days to first treatment
Permissible
Report image
Permissible
Report table
Permissible
Any part of the report
Not permissible
Cell sizes less than 10
Not permissible
Cancer Program Administrative Reports (My Program Only)
Permissible
Quality Measure Reports (My Program Only, excluding caterpillar plots)
Permissible
Volume and unadjusted 30, 90 day mortality
Not permissible
Unadjusted survival
Not permissible
Risk adjusted survival
Not permissible
Additional Reports:
- Stage distribution (My Program Only)
- In/Out migration (My Program Only)
- Insurance status (My Program Only)
- Distance traveled (My Program Only)
- First course treatment (My Program Only)
- Days to first treatment (My Program Only)
- Heat map
Permissible
Permissible
Permissible
Permissible
Permissible
Permissible
Permissible
Not permissible
Commission on Cancer background/informational slides
Permissible
Cell sizes less than 10
Not permissible
Dashboard (home page):
- CoC accreditation measures for site reviewer
- Alert summary
- Notifications
- Most recent quality measure data available
Permissible
Permissible
Not permissible
Permissible
Upload
Not permissible
Submission history report
Not permissible
Submission detail report:
- Records by
- Edit summary
- Records list
Not permissible
Not permissible
Not permissible
Notifications
Not Permissible
Alerts report:
- Total alerts
- Case list
- Alert summary by primary site
- Edit errors
Permissible
Not permissible
Permissible
Not permissible
Case log report:
- Case list
- Case-level alerts
- Case-level edit errors
Not permissible
Not permissible
Not permissible
Quality Measure Report:
- Summary panel
- Details panel – case status
- Case list
Permissible
Permissible
Not permissible
Comparisons Report:
- Performance rate comparisons
- Performance rate comparison by
- Details by … with case counts
Not Permissible
Not Permissible
Not Permissible
Report image
Not Permissible
Report table
Not Permissible
Cell sizes less than 10
Not permissible
Counts by primary site
Permissible
Counts by primary site and stage
Permissible
Case level detail
Not permissible
Report image
Permissible
Report table
Permissible
Cell sizes less than 10
Not permissible
Benchmark percent
Permissible
Hospital percent
Permissible
Report image
Permissible
Report table
Permissible