Effect of a gastrointestinal multidisciplinary clinic on the quality of pancreatic cancer care delivery at a community cancer center.

Authors

Laurence McCahill

Laurence E. McCahill

Lacks Cancer Center, Grand Rapids, MI

Laurence E. McCahill , Gerald P. Wright , Sunil Konduri , Mary May , Coralyn Martinez , Wendy K. Taylor , J. Brad Morrow , Alan T. Davis

Organizations

Lacks Cancer Center, Grand Rapids, MI, Lacks Cancer Center, Grand rapids, MI, Advantage Health, Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners, Grand Rapids, MI

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Healthcare reform calls for measurements of value in services received. The 2002 IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm emphasized deficits in efficiency, effectiveness, and patient centeredness. In 2009, a pancreatic cancer panel proposed 43 measures for high quality pancreatic cancer care. We incorporated these composite measures into a unique program of multidisciplinary (MD) care, nurse navigation (NN), and quality monitoring. Methods: A MD gastrointestinal cancer program was initiated in Jan 2010. Key components included a treatment planning conference followed immediately by a MD clinic. A GI NN coordinated staging, clinical evaluation, and treatment initiation. Patients with suspected /newly diagnosed pancreatic or periampullary neoplasms were included. We evaluated our quality of cancer care and outcomes proposed by the pancreatic cancer quality expert panel. Results: A total of 76 patients with pancreatic neoplasms were evaluated over 18 months, 55 subjects had confirmed malignancies. Of these, 20 were clinical Stage I/II, 15 stage III and 20 Stage IV. Quality measures in Table 1 focus on quality measures. 25 patients underwent resection. Mean OR time was 424 min, mean EBL 843 mL, morbidity 30%, mortality 4%, R0 resection rate 76%, mean nodes evaluated 24, and mean hospital LOS 10 days. Complete adherence with guidelines occurred in all 30 non-operative patients and 22 of 25 patients who undergoing resection. Overall compliance for all pancreatic cancer care guidelines was 99.7%. Conclusions: Comprehensive MD pancreatic cancer evaluation and care is feasible in a community cancer. We believe this study establishes new benchmarks of quality and value assessment for pancreatic cancer programs.


Cancer care quality outcomes.

Quality metric 2010 2011

Mean days until contacted by NN 1.48 2.29
Patients contacted in <2 days 92.8% 91.2%
Mean days until staging completed 4.56 5.54
Staging compliance with NCCN Guidelines 67% 95%
Mean days until GI MD evaluation 7.65 6.33
Patients seen in <10 days 90% 93%
Patients seen by all cancer providers single day 90% 100%
Mean days referral to treatment 16.2 14.6
Mean days diagnosis to treatment 25.0 15.0

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2012 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

General Poster Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract

Track

Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract

Sub Track

Multidisciplinary Treatment

Citation

J Clin Oncol 30, 2012 (suppl 4; abstr 378)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2012.30.4_suppl.378

Abstract #

378

Poster Bd #

F20

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