Pi® Cancer Care ScoreCard

Monthly up to date information on your cancer care practice

Cancer care is a main distinctive field for each hospital. Thequality of cancer surgery in many hospitals remains a difficult to assesssubject, although public pressure on more transparency is high. Hospital professionals are often in the dark here, where internal information and peerdata is hard to obtain, whilst media and authorities always appear to be better informed then the manager and even the doctor involved. Tragpi therefore launches Pi® Cancer Care. Pi® Cancer Care provides professionals with monthly up to date information on his/her own cancer practice versus peers on the technologically most complex surgical cancer procedures.Typically a scorecard of a cancer treatment shows the following elements:

• Volume share of main operation types (e.g.mastectomy vs. lumpectomy)
• Reoperation ratio per main operation type
• Postoperative mortality per main operation type(for high risk procedures)
• Access time (from first diagnostics)
• Average yearly amount of operations for the doctors performing the surgery
• Minimum yearly amount of operations for any doctor performing the surgery
• Yearly amount of operations for the supporting organization
• Average ICU days after operation

Currently this scorecard is available for colon cancer,bladder cancer, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, ovariancancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, pancreas cancer and thyroid cancer. Each scorecard contains specific information on common complications like anastomotic leakage or high blood loss during surgery. An extensive, consistent body of literature supports a relationship between hospital volume and short-term outcomes for cancers treated with technologically complex surgical procedures. This applies both to the surgeon and the supporting hospital organization. We therefore included these volume elements in our cancers corecard.

About Pi®

Pi® is an online management information tool. It is populated with transaction data of over 30 hospitals and provides healthcare providers with a ‘first to know’ insight into their own performance against peer hospitals. It monthly serves a growing community of (currently over 4000) healthcare professionals in their continuous thrive to serve the patient with evidence-based medicine.