Carol Hutchison

Carol Hutchison

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  • in reply to: Concurrent abstracting and 2018 #6574
    AnonymousCarol Hutchison
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    I want to reiterate what Karen and Theresa have already said! Our Cancer Registry has worked very hard to get to the point of concurrent abstracting. I’m sure you’re aware that the COC requires Cancer Programs to participate in RQRS and provide Survivorship Care Plans to our patients who have completed treatment. Our Policy is to provide those Plans to the physicians so they can discuss them with patients. This usually occurs within a month after they finish treatment – in some cases, within four to six months of diagnosis. I agree that the way we did business in the past by implementing changes prior to allowing time for major updates to software and delaying availability to data items can no longer be acceptable. The days are gone for retrospective data collection and reporting. That is why Cancer Registry data is sometimes not respected by researchers and physicians. Additionally, I saw where some registrars are abstracting cases and plan on going back in to change data items after software updates are completed. This is non-productive for our Cancer Registry. We have a COC Cancer Program Accreditation Survey in January 2019 and I am very concerned about our workload and ability to complete certain standard requirements. Thank you.

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