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Monitoring productivity sets standards and goals for your team. It can also be used as a tool to determine and justify staffing needs. Additionally, decreases in certain areas may signal additional educational needs for staff.
In the cancer registry, there are many ways to monitor productivity and many tasks that should be included when looking at the big picture. Some of the activities to monitor are:
- Casefinding activities
- Abstracting
- Corrections and editing (if required by the state)
- Follow-Up activities
- QA activities
- Data requests
- Data submissions and editing for the state and NCDB
- Tumor Board activities
- Continuing educational activities
The methods to monitor some of these activities vary from registry to registry. This Tip of the Month focuses on monitoring abstracting and follow-up activities. In CRStar, this is extremely simple by using the newly enhanced productivity report accessed from the main menu under Enhanced Reporting and Registry Management Reports.
The report has been enhanced to allow users to look at multiple facilities at one time and at a specific registrar’s productivity versus all staff. Productivity can be analyzed for cases abstracted, completed and follow-up activities entered. The report generates a graph and data table with numbers and percentages. The user can designate the type of graph desired: Bar, Column or Pie Chart. A patient list can be automatically generated that gives the registry manager needed variables on each case to effectively monitor productivity.
More Registry Management reports and tools will be released in the coming months. A member of our support team is always available for assistance. Users may log in to the Support Portal at the link below.
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Clinical Corner
Frederick L. Greene, MD FACS, CMO
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The number of cancer survivors in the United States is expected to exceed 22 million by 2030, according to the American Cancer Society. A prior study showed 18.4% of adults diagnosed with an incident cancer between 2009 and 2013 had survived a prior malignancy.
Registry information is critical in highlighting the importance of this trend of second or third malignancies in cancer survivors. Subsequent malignancies in cancer survivors can be assessed by differences in age, sex, race and ethnicity using registry data.
A recent study determined that 1.73 million people in the United States had been diagnosed with a new cancer in 2019 with 19.4% of them surviving a prior cancer. These included 1.9% who survived a prior cancer of the same type, 8.6% who had survived a different form of cancer, and 8.9% who had survived an unknown type of prior cancer.
A diagnosis of a new incident cancer different from the prior malignancy appeared more common among older adults (14.1% for those aged 65 years or older vs. 1.6% for those aged 18 to 49 years). This also appeared more common among men than women (10.3% vs. 8.9%), and among non-Hispanic white individuals than non-Hispanic Black individuals (11% vs. 5.7%).
Researchers also reported differences in prevalence by cancer type. Unfortunately, these individuals may have been excluded from clinical trials due to their prior cancer. Approximately two-thirds of NCI-supported trials from 2018 to 2020 excluded patients with prior or concurrent cancers.
As you review data for patient abstracts and determine the “sequence code” indicating a subsequent malignancy, consider the importance of this information in constructing trials for future cancer survivors.
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Two Oncology Leaders
One Great Solution
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Nursenav and ERS, Inc. have partnered and established an integration between our flagship solutions, CONNECT and CRStar.
This integration benefits our mutual clients by early identification of eligible patients for enrollment into the navigation system and by receiving accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment and outcomes data from CRStar into CONNECT after the abstraction is completed, expediting the time to create a Survivorship Care Plan.
Are you ready to take your cancer registry to the next level? Click below to schedule a call with Melanie Rogan, CTR, Director, Growth and Strategic Services, to discuss how our partnership with Nursenav can benefit your cancer program.
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Listen to the latest episode of
Cancer Registry World
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The latest episode of the Cancer Registry World podcast is available now! Guest Daniel Boffa, MD, Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine joins Dr. Frederick L. Greene to discuss his role with the CoC in the area of Quality Assurance, the critical role of cancer registries and cancer registrars in the quality pipeline and the future of new benchmarks.
Previous episodes with guests Jim Hofferkamp, Denise Harrison, Sharon Gentry, Kay Washington, Lori A. Swain, Loria A. Pollack, Shirley Dalrymple, Robert K. Brookland, Timothy W. Mullett, Catherine Bieker, Jon Patrick, Barbara Dearmon, Lejla Hadzikadic-Gusic, William Laffey, Rohit Nayak, Mellisa Wheeler, Lillie D. Shockney, and Karen Mason, are still available on our website or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, including ApplePodcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and TuneIn.
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The ERS team really had a great time at some of the recent state registars association meetings! We enjoyed meeting everyone and supporting the work you do to lead the Cancer Registry mission and improve the outcomes for all cancer patients.
Hopefully you were able to stop by and see:
- Nicki Skipper at the Ohio (OCRA) meeting
- Bonnie Nelson at the Texas (TxTRA) meeting
- Melanie Rogan at the South Carolina (SCCRA) meeting
- Bonnie Nelson & Yolanda Topin at the Alabama (ACRA) meeting
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Congratulations to the following winners of the ERS various meeting raffles:
- Ohio - Sherry Hill, CTR, Premier Health
- Texas - Cindy Carlin, CTR, Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center
- South Carolina - Kathy Smith, CTR, Roper St. Francis Healthcare
- Alabama - Carol Kennemur, CTR, Ascension Health Birmingham
Upcoming meetings include:
- Michigan (MiCRA) Annual Education Conference - Oct. 12 & 13 in Detroit, MI
- Tennessee (TODAA) Education Conference - Oct. 12 & 13 in Chattanooga, TN
- New York (NYCRA) Annual Educational Conference - Oct. 16 & 17 in Saratoga Springs, NY
- North Carolina (ANCCR) Annual Educational Conference - Oct. 23 & 24 in Wrightsville Beach, NC
- Indiana (ICRA) Fall Conference - Nov. 9 & 10 in Indianapolis, IN
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If you were at the Alabama meeting, hopefully you caught Dr. Rick Greene and Melanie Rogan's presentations! Dr. Greene will speak in-person at the Michigan conference as well as virtually for the California conferece in November. Melanie Rogan will speak in person at the Tennessee and North Carolina meetings and Amy Arnold, will present virtually at the Minnesota/Wisconsin Regional Conference in October. | |
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Do you love CRStar?
So do we and we are offering our loyal customers the chance to earn a $200 gift card when a Cancer Program that you refer becomes an ERS customer!
Please click "Refer CRStar" below if you know of any Cancer Programs that could benefit from CRStar and the advantages that CRStar users enjoy and rely on.
Let's grow our CRStar community together!
Terms and conditions can be found on the CRStar Referral Form.
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