TY - JOUR
T1 - Veterans Affairs Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program and American Society for Radiation Oncology Quality Measures Initiative
AU - Park, John
AU - Puckett, Lindsay L.
AU - Katsoulakis, Evangelia
AU - Venkatesulu, Bhanu Prasad
AU - Kujundzic, Ksenija
AU - Solanki, Abhishek A.
AU - Movsas, Benjamin
AU - Simone, Charles B.
AU - Sandler, Howard
AU - Lawton, Colleen A.
AU - Das, Prajnan
AU - Wo, Jennifer Y.
AU - Buchholz, Thomas A.
AU - Fisher, Christine M.
AU - Harrison, Louis B.
AU - Sher, David J.
AU - Kapoor, Rishabh
AU - Chapman, Christina H.
AU - Dawes, Samantha
AU - Kudner, Randi
AU - Wilson, Emily
AU - Hagan, Michael
AU - Palta, Jatinder
AU - Kelly, Maria D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - Purpose: Ensuring high quality, evidence-based radiation therapy for patients is of the upmost importance. As a part of the largest integrated health system in America, the Department of Veterans Affairs National Radiation Oncology Program (VA-NROP) established a quality surveillance initiative to address the challenge and necessity of providing the highest quality of care for veterans treated for cancer. Methods and Materials: As part of this initiative, the VA-NROP contracted with the American Society for Radiation Oncology to commission 5 Blue Ribbon Panels for lung, prostate, rectal, breast, and head and neck cancers experts. This group worked collaboratively with the VA-NROP to develop consensus quality measures. In addition to the site-specific measures, an additional Blue Ribbon Panel comprised of the chairs and other members of the disease sites was formed to create 18 harmonized quality measures for all 5 sites (13 quality, 4 surveillance, and 1 aspirational). Conclusions: The VA-NROP and American Society for Radiation Oncology collaboration have created quality measures spanning 5 disease sites to help improve patient outcomes. These will be used for the ongoing quality surveillance of veterans receiving radiation therapy through the VA and its community partners.
AB - Purpose: Ensuring high quality, evidence-based radiation therapy for patients is of the upmost importance. As a part of the largest integrated health system in America, the Department of Veterans Affairs National Radiation Oncology Program (VA-NROP) established a quality surveillance initiative to address the challenge and necessity of providing the highest quality of care for veterans treated for cancer. Methods and Materials: As part of this initiative, the VA-NROP contracted with the American Society for Radiation Oncology to commission 5 Blue Ribbon Panels for lung, prostate, rectal, breast, and head and neck cancers experts. This group worked collaboratively with the VA-NROP to develop consensus quality measures. In addition to the site-specific measures, an additional Blue Ribbon Panel comprised of the chairs and other members of the disease sites was formed to create 18 harmonized quality measures for all 5 sites (13 quality, 4 surveillance, and 1 aspirational). Conclusions: The VA-NROP and American Society for Radiation Oncology collaboration have created quality measures spanning 5 disease sites to help improve patient outcomes. These will be used for the ongoing quality surveillance of veterans receiving radiation therapy through the VA and its community partners.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.prro.2022.05.015
DO - 10.1016/j.prro.2022.05.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 35690354
AN - SCOPUS:85136277154
SN - 1879-8500
VL - 12
SP - 468
EP - 474
JO - Practical Radiation Oncology
JF - Practical Radiation Oncology
IS - 6
ER -