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Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI): Preliminary results from a Brazilian academic public oncology service.

2012; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 30; Issue: 15_suppl Linguagem: Inglês

10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.e16568

1527-7755

Daniel Iracema Cubero, Felipe Melo Cruz, Suelen Patrícia dos Santos Martins, João Glasberg, Thomás Giollo Rivelli, Arinilda Silva Campos, Leandro Luongo de Matos, Auro del Giglio,

Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology

e16568 Background: The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) is a voluntary program developed by ASCO to aid oncology practices in quality self-assessment and continuous improvement of patient records. It consists of a cyclical, semiannual measurement of the adequacy of several care processes pertaining to some important aspects of patient care. Few academic cancer centers have been QOPI participants in the United States and there aren’t reports to our knowledge of any Latin American Cancer Center adopting this strategy. Methods: This study shows the pilot initiative to implement the QOPI at the ABC School of Medicine, Discipline of Oncology, a large public academic cancer center of Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. Results: From January 2008 to December 2010, we consecutive selected 37 patients with gastric cancer, 40 with breast cancer, 33 with lung cancer and 40 colorectal cancer. The table below shows the first round of the core QOPI. Conclusions: There are several opportunities for improvement such as assessing and recording of pain and analgesic use, documentation patient consent and of the intent of chemotherapy and providing patients with their chemotherapy summaries. Our current electronic record will be modified to reflect the aforementioned needs in order to improve our results in the following rounds of QOPI program. [Table: see text]