Special Series: Quality Care Symposium
Foreword
Second Annual ASCO Quality Care Symposium By Douglas W. Blayney, MD, and Craig C. Earle, MD Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copyright © 2014 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
M A Y 2014
Research in 1995 at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and was director of the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences. Over the course of her career, she published more than 200 papers on topics including cost effectiveness of health services, racial disparities in health care, and patient preferences about end-of-life care. Jane Weeks died at her home on September 10th, at age 61. Social and electronic media applications played an increasingly prominent role in the Symposium. On the social media Twitter network, the hashtag #ASCOQLTY was mentioned in 662 tweets by 156 participants, or 28 tweets per hour. This exceeded the activity of any other ASCO specialty meetings to date. A new innovation first used at the Quality Care Symposium was “eQ&A”. For those attending the meeting, in addition to walking to the microphone and questioning the speaker, there was the opportunity to submit questions, to be answered in real time, by either text message or e-mail. Both the live questions from the microphone and the electronically submitted questions led to spirited discussion between the speakers and attendees. The meeting also featured virtual audio poster “walks” in which attendees could tour selected posters while listening to commentary curated by expert members of the meeting steering committee. There was still plenty of time for old-fashioned networking, though, at events such as the Faculty and Attendee Meet and Greet Breakfast. The third ASCO Quality Care Symposium is scheduled October 17-18, 2014, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Mark your calendars.
Corresponding author: Douglas W. Blayney, MD, Stanford University, 875 Blake Wilbur, CC 2213, Stanford, CA 94305-8127; e-mail: [email protected].
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2014.001448
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The second ASCO Quality Care Symposium demonstrated, by the attendance, energy, and engagement of the participants, that the quality movement in oncology is alive and well. Once again, more than 700 physicians, nurses, and administrators with an interest in quality measurement and improvement gathered for two days in San Diego. Since 2003, ASCO has led quality of care efforts for our patients and for oncology professionals. The society’s programs include the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI), the QOPI certification program, and the Quality Symposium. In addition, the inaugural Quality Training Program was launched in October 2013. This 6-month, project-based performance improvement course enrolled 15 teams from across the program. Soon to also join the lineup will be CancerLinQ, a “big data” effort to capture patterns of care and become integral to a rapid learning oncology system. All of these efforts were featured in preferred abstracts and invited presentations at the Quality Care Symposium, and many of these presentations are captured in this issue of Journal of Oncology Practice. This year, the organizing committee offered attendees the opportunity to hear and see the work of their colleagues and reduced the number of invited speakers. We continued the format of speakers offering framing presentations to introduce proffered abstracts of high interest and merit that were chosen for oral presentation. There were 311 abstracts submitted for consideration, in the categories of the practice of quality (127), the science of quality (152), and health reform and its implications for costs and quality (32). There were 640 meeting registrants in San Diego, of whom 540 were classified as professionals (physicians, nurses, etc), and 53% were ASCO members. Of the attendees, 89% were from the United States. A special moment of silence was observed to mark the untimely passing of Jane C. Weeks, MD, who died shortly before the Symposium. Dr Weeks, a pioneer in the cancer quality movement, influenced the careers and thinking of many at the Symposium. She founded the Center for Outcomes and Policy
Foreword
Second Annual ASCO Quality Care Symposium By Douglas W. Blayney, MD, and Craig C. Earle, MD Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copyright © 2014 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
M A Y 2014
Research in 1995 at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and was director of the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences. Over the course of her career, she published more than 200 papers on topics including cost effectiveness of health services, racial disparities in health care, and patient preferences about end-of-life care. Jane Weeks died at her home on September 10th, at age 61. Social and electronic media applications played an increasingly prominent role in the Symposium. On the social media Twitter network, the hashtag #ASCOQLTY was mentioned in 662 tweets by 156 participants, or 28 tweets per hour. This exceeded the activity of any other ASCO specialty meetings to date. A new innovation first used at the Quality Care Symposium was “eQ&A”. For those attending the meeting, in addition to walking to the microphone and questioning the speaker, there was the opportunity to submit questions, to be answered in real time, by either text message or e-mail. Both the live questions from the microphone and the electronically submitted questions led to spirited discussion between the speakers and attendees. The meeting also featured virtual audio poster “walks” in which attendees could tour selected posters while listening to commentary curated by expert members of the meeting steering committee. There was still plenty of time for old-fashioned networking, though, at events such as the Faculty and Attendee Meet and Greet Breakfast. The third ASCO Quality Care Symposium is scheduled October 17-18, 2014, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Mark your calendars.
Corresponding author: Douglas W. Blayney, MD, Stanford University, 875 Blake Wilbur, CC 2213, Stanford, CA 94305-8127; e-mail: [email protected].
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2014.001448
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jop.ascopubs.org
161
Information downloaded from jop.ascopubs.org and provided by at UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN on March 6, 2015 from 141.214.17.222 Copyright © 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology. All rights reserved.
The second ASCO Quality Care Symposium demonstrated, by the attendance, energy, and engagement of the participants, that the quality movement in oncology is alive and well. Once again, more than 700 physicians, nurses, and administrators with an interest in quality measurement and improvement gathered for two days in San Diego. Since 2003, ASCO has led quality of care efforts for our patients and for oncology professionals. The society’s programs include the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI), the QOPI certification program, and the Quality Symposium. In addition, the inaugural Quality Training Program was launched in October 2013. This 6-month, project-based performance improvement course enrolled 15 teams from across the program. Soon to also join the lineup will be CancerLinQ, a “big data” effort to capture patterns of care and become integral to a rapid learning oncology system. All of these efforts were featured in preferred abstracts and invited presentations at the Quality Care Symposium, and many of these presentations are captured in this issue of Journal of Oncology Practice. This year, the organizing committee offered attendees the opportunity to hear and see the work of their colleagues and reduced the number of invited speakers. We continued the format of speakers offering framing presentations to introduce proffered abstracts of high interest and merit that were chosen for oral presentation. There were 311 abstracts submitted for consideration, in the categories of the practice of quality (127), the science of quality (152), and health reform and its implications for costs and quality (32). There were 640 meeting registrants in San Diego, of whom 540 were classified as professionals (physicians, nurses, etc), and 53% were ASCO members. Of the attendees, 89% were from the United States. A special moment of silence was observed to mark the untimely passing of Jane C. Weeks, MD, who died shortly before the Symposium. Dr Weeks, a pioneer in the cancer quality movement, influenced the careers and thinking of many at the Symposium. She founded the Center for Outcomes and Policy
