Table 6 IACC hospital-based cancer registry quality control program
Standards | Quality control activities | Place/support |
|---|---|---|
Capacity building | Appropriate training of tumor registrars and research assistants | Portuguese Institute of Cancer, Porto, Portugal and Beira Cancer registry, Mozambique |
Capacity building | Additional support provided by the Portuguese Institute of Cancer, Porto, Portugal cancer registry staff. | Portuguese Institute of Cancer, Porto, Portugal by teleconference |
Internal organization | Using the Standard Procedure Manual for Population-Based Cancer Registry in sub Saharan Africa. | https://afcrn.org/index.php/resources2/53-standard-procedure-manual (20) |
Internal organization | Using the AFCRN Data Collection Form | Portuguese translation of AFCRN Data Collection Form https://afcrn.org/index.php/resources2/56-data-collection-form (8) |
Improving the quality of cancer registry | Comparing hospital medical record and tumor registry data | IACC |
Improving the quality of cancer registry | Reviewing by research assistant to check accuracy of gender, age, histologic and morphologic diagnosis of the patients according to ICD-O 3, | IACC |
Improving the quality of cancer registry | Crosschecks by research assistant to increase the consistency of the database | IACC |
Improving the quality of cancer registry | Revise and record of inaccurate data | IACC |
Improving the quality of cancer registry | Validation of data by using quality control programs/tools of International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) for avoiding duplication and any unlikely combination of age, sex, site and morphology and other factors in the database (CanReg 5). | IACC |
Improve the cancer registry network in order to start an Population-based cancer registry of Luanda | Appropriate training of tumor registrars of other hospitals, in particular: Américo Boavida Hospital, Josina Machel Hospital, Lucrécia Paim Maternity Hospital, David Bernardino Pediatric Hospital, Prenda Hospital, Central Military Hospital and Augusto Ngangula Maternity | IACC and Portuguese Institute of Cancer, Porto, Portugal |
workshop on the population-based cancer registry of Luanda | All hospitals in Luanda | IACC and Ministry of Health |