A New Vision for Integrated Breast Care.
Abstract
During the second year of the DOD grant "A New Vision for Integrated Breast Care", we have continued to design and in some cases implement unique programs and services for the benefit of the patient. Our Continuous Quality Improvement, Informatics and Education Cores are working together to help streamline implementation of programs. This enables us to identify the quality improvements we hope to gain by changing a service and the quality measures needed to capture change; to design databases and data collection forms to capture the data; and to identify the educational efforts required for patients, referring physicians and our own staff for successful implementation. The Administrative Core must integrate all of the pieces and attach a timeline. In Year 3, we will launch many of the programs which have been designed this past year: Coordinated psychosocial and satisfaction measures; the Same-Day Evaluation program; surgical and pathology standards complete with integration to the micrometastasis; sentinel lymphnode and MM clinical trials; the Follow-up program to collect outcomes data and optimize the time of various practitioners, the adjuvant risk program; and our second-opinion service, including consultation planning, interactive decision-making and a written record of the consultation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADB240473
Entities
People
- Laura J. Esserman
Organizations
- University of California, San Francisco