Collaboration between cancer registries and certified centers

Kowalski, Christoph and Rueckher, Johannes and Hartz, Tobias and Wesselmann, Simone and Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika and Ortmann, Olaf (2024) Collaboration between cancer registries and certified centers. ONKOLOGIE, 30 (4). pp. 257-264. ISSN 2731-7226, 2731-7234

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Abstract

Background: The German Cancer Society certification program for cancer centers and clinical cancer registries are two major instruments for quality assurance in oncological care in Germany. Objective: This article outlines the purpose and history of certification and clinical cancer registration, the associated data collection, and describes the collaboration and potentials for the future. Materials and methods: This work comprises a narrative review. Results and conclusion: Particularly at the documentation level, centers and registries can synergistically complement each other. Many of the mandatory variables for clinical cancer registration in the oncological basic dataset are also used for certification. At the same time, registries are required to report follow-up data to the centers. The potentials for collaboration are far from having been exhausted. Certification documentation is more flexible, and together with the longitudinal data from clinical cancer registration, there are promising opportunities for generating evidence with healthcare-related data. One approach is the integration of center documentation with clinical cancer registry data to flexibly capture and evaluate new developments. These possibilities are currently being explored in joint projects.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ONCOLOGY; Malignant neoplasms; Documentation; Data aggregation; Certification; Routinely collected health data
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe (Schwerpunkt Geburtshilfe)
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2025 08:55
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2025 08:55
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/64108

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