Hospital Tumor Board

Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center

 

2002 Annual Report

 

I.                     Background

II.                   Meetings

III.                  Accomplishments based on year-start management action plan

IV.               Summary of 2002 accomplishments and plans for 2003

 

I. Background

 

The Hospital Tumor Board was reorganized with a July 22, 2002 memo from the Hospital Director, Dr. Christia S. Padolina appointing the following as members of the Executive Committee:

 

Chair                              : Reynaldo Joson, MD

                        Vice-Chair               : Eduardo Tan, MD

                        Secretary                   : Somia Comia, MD

                        Member                     : Edgardo Rodriquez, MD

                        Member                     : Josefina Valdez , MD

 

II. Meetings

 

The Hospital Tumor Board had 3 meetings after the reorganization, complying with the agreed upon frequency of once every 2 months meetings.

 

August 23, 2002

October 17, 2002

December 19, 2002

 

III. Accomplishments based on year-start management action plan

 

There was no year-start 2002 management action plan since the Hospital Tumor Board was reorganized in July, 2002.   However, the primer and the 2003 management action plan can be used as a checklists for accomplishments expected of the Board.  The primer was approved in the August 23, 2002 meeting and 2003 management action plan, in the October 17, 2002 meeting.

 

Accomplishments:

  1. Primer of the Hospital Tumor Board (August 23, 2002)
  2. Management Action Plan for 2003 (October 17, 2002)
  3. Cancer Registry (October 17, 2002)
  4. Unified concepts on cancer causes, prevention, cure, and palliation (December 19, 2002)

 

 

2003 Management Action Plan

 

 

Objectives

Activities

Standards and Targets

To formulate integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive hospital-wide policies on the management of patients with cancer in the hospital.

Written guidelines:

1.      Unified concept on cancer cause, prevention, cure, and palliation

2.      Standardized cancer patient management process

3.      Cancer palliation program

4.      Cancer pain control program

Integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive hospital-wide

Continually updated

To monitor and continually improve the quality of care to patients with cancers.

Monitor and maintain morbidity and mortality rates and complaints of patients within acceptable rates

Conduct cancer registry reporting twice a year

Nonhospice cases:

Acceptable mortality/morbidity rates (<5%)

Acceptable no. of complaints (<5 / year)

To conduct educational and training programs for concerned staff so as to facilitate implementation of hospital policies on management of cancer patients.

Conduct hospital tumor board meeting once every 2 months for educational and training purpose

Structured

Geared towards goal and objectives

To promote research on oncology that will continually improve the quality of care for cancer patients.

Conduct cancer research one per department or at least 4 in a year

Number (4 a year)

Useful enough to be integrated into policies and procedures

 

 

IV.  Summary of 2002 accomplishments and plans for 2003

 

The reorganized Hospital Tumor Board has a clear direction of where it is going through the primer that it formulated.  Within the primer too are a checklist of accomplishments expected from the Board as well as evaluation parameters of its performance.  Thus, the primer was the most important accomplishment of the Board for 2002.

The other 2002 accomplishments of the Board like the Cancer Registry and the unified concept on cancer causes, prevention, cure, and palliation emanated from the dictates of the primer and checklists.  Based on the 2003 management action plan, the Board is on track and on schedule.

 

For 2003, the new activities that will be done will be the following:

 

Written guidelines:

       Standardized cancer patient management process

Cancer palliation program

Cancer pain control program

 

Conduct cancer research one per department or at least 4 in a year

 

Public health advisory on cancer