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EUROCHIP-2

EUROCHIP-2. The experience of the study in Portugal. Materials. 8 Hospitals (South region of Portugal) 107 cases for breast cancer study 196 cases for colon rectum study Diagnostic data Treatment data Demographic data. Methods. Cases randomly selected;

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EUROCHIP-2

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  1. EUROCHIP-2 The experience of the study in Portugal

  2. Materials • 8 Hospitals (South region of Portugal) • 107 cases for breast cancer study • 196 cases for colon rectum study • Diagnostic data • Treatment data • Demographic data

  3. Methods • Cases randomly selected; • Hospitals selected cover ROR-SUL area; • Team of physicians and medical students went to hospitals; • Medical charts were analysed and relevant data collected; • EUROCHIP-2 DB was filled with collected data by same team.

  4. Main difficulties • Collect data from Health centres • Dates of first visit to general practitioner (GP) are unavailable in hospitals databases and hospitals medical charts. To get this information it is needed to conduct data collection at health centres level. • For the same reason, dates of first request for clinical/hospital appointment were unavailable. • Collect data from radiotherapy • Radiotherapy is done outside hospitals (except in one case: Instituto Português de Oncologia).

  5. Main results • Some difficulties were found in collecting data concerning delay of cancer treatment indicator. • Information from Health centres medical charts are neither usually collected, nor easily accessible (however in 2008 health centres will work closer to hospital onchological units, improving data flow processes). • In some cases, data concerning radiotherapy was not easy to find; • Data concerning compliance with guidelines indicator were easy to collect (cancer registry database);

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