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Dr. Katrien Van Look. Criteria in Europe for Cancer Centres following the OECI. Henk Hummel OECI Accreditation and Designation Executive Officer Leiden 15-01-2013. Background. Founded 1979 75 members Working groups Mission : Linking cancer centres Coordinate their actions
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Dr. Katrien Van Look Criteria in Europe for Cancer Centres following the OECI Henk Hummel OECI Accreditation and Designation Executive Officer Leiden 15-01-2013
Background • Founded 1979 • 75 members • Workinggroups • 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
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
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
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
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
Quantitative questionnaire Five chapters -data collection-
Designation • 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
Why accreditation? • Overall improvement of quality • Strengthening comprehensiveness • Improving patient care and satisfaction • Improving integration research and care activities • European acknowledgement