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National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities
Background: Diagnosis and surgical treatment decision making for thoracic cancers is complex. Moreover, there is demonstrated variability in how each province in Canada delivers cancer care, resulting in disparities in patient outcomes. Recently, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) publis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33450804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol28010043 |
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author | Arnaout, Angel Prashad, Anubha Dunk, Nadine Rogers, Jess Edwards, Annemarie Argent-Katwala, Mary Finley, Christian |
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description | Background: Diagnosis and surgical treatment decision making for thoracic cancers is complex. Moreover, there is demonstrated variability in how each province in Canada delivers cancer care, resulting in disparities in patient outcomes. Recently, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) published pan-Canadian evidence-based standards for the care of thoracic surgery cancer patients. This study was undertaken to assess the degree to which these standards were currently met in practice and to further understand the determinants to their implementation nationally. Methods: This study was undertaken in two parts: (1) a national survey of thoracic surgeons to assess the perceived extent of implementation of these standards in their institution and province; and (2) formation of a focus group with a representative sample of thoracic surgeons across Canada in a qualitative study to understand the determinants of successful standards implementation. Results: 37 surgeons (33% response rate) participated in the survey; 78% were from academic hospitals. The top categories of standards that were under-implemented included (a) quality assurance processes, data collection and clinician audit and feedback, and (b) ongoing regional planning and workload assessments for thoracic surgeons, and (c) pathology turnaround time target of two weeks and the use of a standardized synoptic pathology report format. Enablers, barriers, and opportunities for standards implementation contextualized the discussion within the focus group. Conclusion: Study results demonstrated variation in the implementation of surgery standards across Canada and identified the determinants to the delivery of high quality surgical care. Future work will need to include the promotion and development of quality improvement strategies and effective resource allocation that is aligned with the implementation of thoracic cancer surgery standards in order to improve patient outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-79032692021-02-25 National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities Arnaout, Angel Prashad, Anubha Dunk, Nadine Rogers, Jess Edwards, Annemarie Argent-Katwala, Mary Finley, Christian Curr Oncol Article Background: Diagnosis and surgical treatment decision making for thoracic cancers is complex. Moreover, there is demonstrated variability in how each province in Canada delivers cancer care, resulting in disparities in patient outcomes. Recently, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) published pan-Canadian evidence-based standards for the care of thoracic surgery cancer patients. This study was undertaken to assess the degree to which these standards were currently met in practice and to further understand the determinants to their implementation nationally. Methods: This study was undertaken in two parts: (1) a national survey of thoracic surgeons to assess the perceived extent of implementation of these standards in their institution and province; and (2) formation of a focus group with a representative sample of thoracic surgeons across Canada in a qualitative study to understand the determinants of successful standards implementation. Results: 37 surgeons (33% response rate) participated in the survey; 78% were from academic hospitals. The top categories of standards that were under-implemented included (a) quality assurance processes, data collection and clinician audit and feedback, and (b) ongoing regional planning and workload assessments for thoracic surgeons, and (c) pathology turnaround time target of two weeks and the use of a standardized synoptic pathology report format. Enablers, barriers, and opportunities for standards implementation contextualized the discussion within the focus group. Conclusion: Study results demonstrated variation in the implementation of surgery standards across Canada and identified the determinants to the delivery of high quality surgical care. Future work will need to include the promotion and development of quality improvement strategies and effective resource allocation that is aligned with the implementation of thoracic cancer surgery standards in order to improve patient outcomes. MDPI 2021-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7903269/ /pubmed/33450804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol28010043 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Arnaout, Angel Prashad, Anubha Dunk, Nadine Rogers, Jess Edwards, Annemarie Argent-Katwala, Mary Finley, Christian National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title | National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title_full | National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title_fullStr | National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title_full_unstemmed | National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title_short | National Thoracic Surgery Standards Implementation: Barriers, Enablers, and Opportunities |
title_sort | national thoracic surgery standards implementation: barriers, enablers, and opportunities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33450804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol28010043 |
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