Part C: Outline

Part C: Outline

A Proposal Request Outline for Clinical Quality measure to Improve Diagnosis.

Basic Description

The clinical category of the proposed measure is cancer. The World Medical Relief aims to promote the quality of diagnosing cancer.

The specific cancer diagnosis that the World Medical Relief focuses on improving is covering all ages without assumption. The previously focused age groups have been the old; the organization aims at diagnosing all age groups.

Diagnosis to cover lung cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and kidney cancer by target people in all the government healthcare facilities.

The measure has been in practice before, but it was limited due to financial constraints.

Potential Impact of the Measure

The measure addresses a condition that is common, harmful, and fatal, but preventable.

There has been a performance gap in dealing with the measure due to age assumption.

The organization expects positive outcomes in cost minimization incurred on treatment, reducing complications, maximizing survival rates, and improving patient experience.

Team Qualification

The organization’s staff is experienced as the mission focuses on matters of healthcare only. The minimum hired staff member experience in healthcare is five years. Others are oncologists in particular.

The organization has put strategies such as hiring other experts through vacancy advertisements to engage diverse stakeholders like methodologists, statisticians, etc.

Technical approach

For pilot testing, the organization already has a data source in place.

Data source description:  Fifty clients (patients) from each hospital setting, engaging a total of twenty hospitals and clinicians from the organization; one clinician per ten patients.

There is no rationale in selecting the data source. Patient selection is random since the focus is to cover all age groups and both genders. Clinician selection is based on their area of experience.