Victorian Prostate Cancer Registry

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Gaining traction and propelling
change: rubber on the road
Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Millar
Director, Radiation Oncology, Alfred Health, Monash University
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Rap sheet
Alfred Health RO Clinical Registry
VCR - prostate cancer
VCR - Rectal cancer
VCR - Bladder cancer
Victorian Prostate Cancer Registry
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Australian Prostate Cancer Registry
Victorian pilot Lung cancer registry
Biogrid, esp colorectal, prostate
Australian Plasma cell disorders
Breast cancer
Thyroid cancer registry
Alfred Health oesophageal cancer registr
Prostate seed brachytherapy registry
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Source: Porter ME. What is
value in health care?
N Engl J Med. 2010
23;363(26):2477–81.
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Source: Porter & Lee. The
Strategy That Will Fix Health
Care. Harvard Business
Review October 2013.
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Clinicians!
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The dogs bark, but the
caravan moves on…
-Arab proverb
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Individual change
Education
Opinion Leaders
Source: Ham C. Improving
the performance of health
services: the role of clinical
leadership. Lancet. 2003
7;361(9373):1978–80
Peer-review processes
Financial
Ownership of idea and process
Appeals to ethical professional principles
NOT CONTROLS
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Organisational change
Education & training of clinical leaders
Support of clinical leaders
Allow time
Organizational development
Support teams
Rapid iterations
Source: Ham C. Lancet. 2003
Victorian Cancer Registry
All Diagnoses
5311
cases
776
deaths
State and National Death Registries
Variation in death rate
Cancer service
regions
Victorian Cancer Registry
All Diagnoses
5311
cases
776
deaths
State and National Death Registries
Victorian Cancer Registry
All Diagnoses
Link to medical records & patients
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VPCR – what worked well?
Cumulative & Stacked
Accrual by Hospital
Cabrini
Peter Mac
Austin
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What registries can achieve
NCCN risk category at baseline and treatment provided
Source: Prostate Cancer Registry 2012
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Treatment patterns
* Frydenberg, Millar et al MJA 2000; 172:270-274
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What registries can achieve
Sexual BOTHER according to primary treatment approach
RP
Big problem
Moderate problem
EBRT
Very small/Small
problem
LDR
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Source: Prostate Cancer Registry 2012
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Victorian Prostate Cancer Registry
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Confessions
Concern about “data ownership”
Pre-existing datasets / registries
Clinical workload
Minimal objective dataset
Funding
Rapid case-ascertainment
Unbiased complete case-ascertainment
Extending the registry
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Accent-u-ate the
positive…
Elim-in-ate the
negative…
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Organisational influences on clinicians
Establishment of higher goal
Principles based
Health service administrative champions e.g. Epworth
Government champions
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Individual clinicians
Establish trust with clinicians
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Communication & consultation
Meet them face-to-face (hopefully with one or more of their own)
Win intellectual argument
Involvement
Identification of influencers. Support them.
Process-driven
Respect
Governance Group
Awareness of clinical sensitivities
Clinical Champions
Relieve clinicians of workload
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Change to clinicians’ environment
Need to demonstrate the registry’s ability to improve patient care
publish methodology/findings
Where possible, integrate into clinical practice
data collection as part of normal clinical process
feedback of results timely and relevant
Good governance structures
credibility
maintain independence from government and groups within
specialist areas
Incentives
Funded forums to discuss outcomes/research stemming from
registries/ability to be involved in publications
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Thanks to
Sue Evans
John McNeil
Joanne Dean
Julie Wood
Fanny Sampurno
Catherine Pound
Catherine Mulvany