Cancer QI Programs

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Improving the Quality of Care for Cancer Patients

The ACS Cancer Programs strives to improve the quality of care for cancer patients through a quality improvement standard. Cancer Programs aims to improve program’s ability to plan, conduct, evaluate, and report on quality improvement projects and provide opportunity for collaborative learning and opportunities to participate in national projects.

National Initiatives

Beyond ASK Quality Improvement Project

Beyond ASK is a national QI project that seeks to build a program’s capacity to offer smoking cessation assistance to newly diagnosed cancer patients.

Breaking Barriers Quality Improvement Collaborative

Breaking Barriers is a national QI Project sponsored by ACS Cancer Programs that seeks to reduce missed radiation therapy appointment (no-show) rates.

Standard 5.8 Lung NODES

Standard 5.8 Lung NODES seeks to aid and assist programs in identifying areas for improvement in compliance for Standard 5.8.

Genetics Access Pilot

The project will engage CoC and NAPBC accredited programs to understand models for and barriers to offering genetic testing to breast cancer patients.

Tell us about your idea!

Have an idea about a potential national project you would like to tell us about? Download and complete this form, and send it to cancerqi@facs.org.

Questions?

Reach out to cancerqi@facs.org or Log In to Canswer Forum and search for answers to your QI questions.