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Cancer tracking system improves timeliness of liver cancer care at a Veterans Hospital: A comparison of cohorts before and after implementation of an… — Europe PMC PMID:36812575

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Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/36812575
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000080
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Cancer tracking system improves timeliness of liver cancer care at a Veterans Hospital: A comparison of cohorts before and after implementation of an… — Europe PMC PMID:36812575 — Europe PMC (en), https://europepmc.org/article/MED/36812575 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_e047cdcdcc62 (Metraipolis archive dc_e047cdcdcc62, sha256 3d75f791e37a728067544107f4806c94f622bb796a1914349319a19b9061ed28)

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@misc{dce047cdcdcc62,
  title = {Cancer tracking system improves timeliness of liver cancer care at a Veterans Hospital: A comparison of cohorts before and after implementation of an… — Europe PMC PMID:36812575},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/36812575},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_e047cdcdcc62; sha256 3d75f791e37a728067544107f4806c94f622bb796a1914349319a19b9061ed28},
  year = {2026}
}

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Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) requires complex care coordination. Patient safety may be compromised with untimely follow-up of abnormal liver imaging. This study evaluated whether an electronic case-finding and tracking system improved timeliness of HCC care. Methods: An electronic medical record-linked abnormal imaging identification and tracking system was implemented at a Veterans Affairs Hospital. This system reviews all liver radiology reports, generates a queue of abnormal cases for review, and maintains a queue of cancer care events with due dates and automated reminders. This is a pre-/post-intervention cohort study to evaluate whether implementation of this tracking system reduced time between HCC diagnosis and treatment and time between first liver image suspicious for HCC, specialty care, diagnosis, and treatment at a Veterans Hospital. Patients diagnosed with HCC in the 37 months before tracking system implementation were compared to patients diagnosed with HCC in the 71 months after its implementation. Linear regression was used to calculate mean change in relevant intervals of care adjusted for age, race, ethnicity, BCLC stage, and indication for first suspicious image. Results: There were 60 patients pre-intervention and 127 post-intervention. In the post-intervention group, adjusted mean time from diagnosis to treatment was 36 days shorter (p = 0.007), time from imaging to diagnosis 51 days shorter (p = 0.21), and time from imaging to treatment 87 days shorter (p = 0.05). Patients whose imaging was performed for HCC screening had the greatest improvement in time from diagnosis to treatment (63 days, p = 0.02) and from first suspicious image to treatment (179 days, p = 0.03). The post-intervention group also had a greater proportion of HCC diagnosed at earlier BCLC stages (p<0.03). Conclusions: The tracking system improved timeliness of HCC diagnosis and treatment and may be useful for improving HCC care delivery, including in health systems already implementing HCC screening.

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Pubblicazione: PLOS digital health, 2022 (prima pubblicazione 2022-08-01).
Identificativi: PMID 36812575 · PMCID PMC9931271 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000080.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/36812575 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000080. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
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