Joven & Fuerte: Programa para la Atencion e Investigacion de Mujeres Jovenes con Cancer de Mama, Mexico City, Mexico
Omar Peña-Curiel, Cynthia Villarreal-Garza, Mauricio Canavati-Marcos, Karen M. Velazquez-Ayala, Janeth Castro-Carrasco, María Alejandra Garza-Ledezma, Katia Zarzar-Handal, Héctor Díaz-Pérez, David Omar Rodriguez, Vedner Guerrier
Background: Ensuring quality of care in our breast cancer center (BCC) at Hospital Zambrano Hellion in Monterrey, Mexico has been one of the main objectives since its commencement in 2016. To achieve this goal, we evaluated our compliance to ASCO’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) 84 breast cancer related metrics as a part of a quality improvement (QI) project undertaken during the 2018 Quality Training Program (QTP) in Alexandria, VA. Methods: We established a multidisciplinary QI team engaged in data acquisition, process improvement and implementation in our BCC. We developed a Microsoft Word medical record template and established a new “first time visit” model to achieve our objective of 80% documentation rate of 13 identified reasonably achievable QOPI metrics. Monthly Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles were conducted for 6 months from August through December 2018. Results: After a sample data abstraction of 20 patients’ medical records, our baseline QOPI-compliance resulted in 40/84 QOPI metrics being met by our BCC program. The remaining 44/84 were distributed in two categories, the first 13/44 were labeled as “done/not documented” metrics, and the second set of 31/44 metrics were labeled as “not done/not documented” metrics given they were not performed at all. We approached the 13/44 “done/not documented” metrics for this project based on our priority matrix. After our QI intervention, we surpassed our objective by the third PDSA cycle. Furthermore, by March 2019 we reached 95% cumulative compliance of those metrics. Conclusions: The development of a systematic QI approach enhanced our BCC QOPI-compliance in 13 reasonably achievable metrics to 95% over a 6-month period. Currently, we are targeting the remaining 40/84 metrics to ultimately adhere to all breast cancer QOPI standards. To our knowledge, we are the first Mexican BCC pursuing a QOPI-compliant practice through ASCO’s QTP initiative.
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