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    P2.16 - Treatment in the Real World - Support, Survivorship, Systems Research (ID 187)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: Poster Viewing in the Exhibit Hall
    • Track: Treatment in the Real World - Support, Survivorship, Systems Research
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    • Coordinates: 9/09/2019, 10:15 - 18:15, Exhibit Hall
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      P2.16-11 - ADVANCE-1: Development and Feasibility Testing of a Benchmarking Approach for Quality Improvement in Lung Cancer Care (Now Available) (ID 280)

      10:15 - 18:15  |  Author(s): Riccardo Muhr

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      Background

      Benchmarking is successfully utilized in industry to improve working process and productivity. In its original sense benchmarking is a systematic process for comparing performances, functions or processes of organisations against the best in the world.

      However, the majority of research within lung cancer is focused on prevention, diagnosis and treatment rather than examining infrastructure or processes of managing lung cancer patients.

      ADVANCE-1 is a European Respiratory Society (ERS) funded pilot study with the aim of creating a benchmarking tool that can easily document and reflect the structure and process within a lung cancer centre and its associated registry and how these processes impact on the pathway of a patient through the individual centres.

      Method

      The ADVANCE-1 study group was constituted by the two ERS fellowship-holders and senior lung cancer specialists from the two participating lung cancer services in the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, and the Lungenklinik Heckeshorn in the Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany. We created the study design with direct cooperation of the German Benchmarking Centre as well as the University of Glasgow. Final results were externally reviewed by the German Society for Quality Management in Health Care.

      Result

      Two benchmarking tools were created; the first for documentation of the service provided at each centre, the underlying cancer registry and a test of the robustness and comprehensiveness of information and data collecting resources available at each centre. Secondly; a patient pathway tool to reflect the journey of a patient through each of the relevant centres. Patient satisfaction surveys and staff satisfaction surveys were also created.

      Prospective testing of these benchmarking tools in Glasgow and Berlin will allow a comparison between the two centres in order to ascertain best practice and learning from each centre in a so called ‘collaborative’ benchmarking approach.

      Conclusion

      This unique study has created a benchmarking tool that can easily document the service of a lung cancer centre and the pathway of a patient through that service. With comparison and learning from each other using this tool we aim to improve the patient care and journey through a lung cancer service.

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