Criteria in Europe for Cancer Centres following the OECI

Henk HummelOECI Accreditation and Designation Executive OfficerLeiden 15-01-2013

Dr. Katrien Van Look

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Founded 197975 members

Working groups

Mission:• Linking cancer

centres• Coordinate their

actions• Inter/

Multidisciplinarity• Quality of cancer

care• Integration of

research• Innovation

• Patients involvement

Working groups Biobanks and Molecular Pathology, Giorgia Stanta Education and training: A. Paradiso, Bari Prevention and early diagnoses, C. Harrison Cost-benefit, L. Steuten EurocanPlatform, Ulrik Ringborg Accreditation and Designation, M. Saghatchian

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Quality assessment in health care/oncology

Internationally JACIE: European Eusoma: breast cancer ESMO palliative care ISO9001 DKG: Germany FNCLCC: French NHS: UK Accreditation Canada OECI ISQua

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Accreditation programme : Components Standards and criteria for quality multidisciplinary

cancer care delivered in cancer centres throughout Europe

A tool to collect standardised and quality data from approved cancer centres, to measure treatments patterns and outcomes

A process allowing to survey the cancer centres in order to assess compliance with the standards

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Main goal: A&D programme

OECI helping (cancer) centres to implement and improve a quality system for oncological care using the standards and peer review system

Characteristics of the programme

Voluntary quality improvement programme in Europe Focus on consistency of total (cancer) organisation/centre Databank with quality data of participating centres

(benchmarking – exchange best-practices) Auditors are oncology experts and professionally trained European quality standards brings more consistent quality in

Europe An opportunity for centres to distinguish from others

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Qualitative standards

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Qualitative questionnaire

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Focus of the standards

Comprehesiveness:

Planning and organisation of integrated care Multidisciplinary care Integration and translation of research into care Education for professionals Patient satisfaction Constant quality improvement

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Quantitative questionnaireFive chapters

-data collection-

Designation

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To distinguish four types of cancer institutes

Preliminary designation according to quantitative data from questionnaire

Final designation: check of quality criteria and consistency of all parts during peer review visit

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Why accreditation?

Overall improvement of quality Strengthening comprehensiveness Improving patient care and satisfaction Improving integration research and care activities European acknowledgement