Patient scheduling in cancer treatment facilities

癌症治疗机构的患者安排

• 批准号: 417892-2011
• 负责人: Rousseau, LouisMartin
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=494832
• 关键词: Patient; scheduling; cancer; treatment; facilities

The role of the Cancer Treatment Facility (CTF) is to provide service to an increasing demand from patients who suffer from divers forms of cancer and require different kinds of treatment. CTF administrators face several challenges regarding performance, such as provincial central management process for access to specialized services, which monitor individual patients on the waiting list. In Quebec, the provincial waiting time target for radiation oncology is set to 4 weeks (for 90% of the patients) and it is calculated from the time elapsed between the decisions to treat to the first day of treatment. A radiation oncology department must serve both curative and palliative patients with different access to care priority levels. Patient treated with a curative intent account for 70% of patients. After a complex treatment planning process involving different healthcare professionals, treatments will be delivered on a daily basis, 5 days a week from 5 to 44 treatments. The remaining 30% of the patients are palliative and need rapid access to care. Errors in patient flows are a major concern as it can often lead to delays and cancellations of treatment, which directly affects patients' health.

癌症治疗机构 (CTF) 的作用是为患有多种癌症并需要不同治疗的患者提供服务，以满足日益增长的需求。 CTF 管理员在绩效方面面临多项挑战，例如获取专业服务的省级中央管理流程，该流程负责监控等待名单上的个别患者。在魁北克省，放射肿瘤学的省级等待时间目标设定为 4 周（90% 的患者），从决定治疗到治疗第一天之间经过的时间计算。放射肿瘤科必须为治疗性和姑息性患者提供不同的护理优先级服务。以治愈为目的接受治疗的患者占患者的 70%。经过不同医疗保健专业人员参与的复杂治疗计划流程后，将每天、每周 5 天提供 5 至 44 次治疗。其余 30% 的患者处于姑息状态，需要快速获得护理。患者流程中的错误是一个主要问题，因为它通常会导致治疗的延误和取消，从而直接影响患者的健康。