Exploring barriers and facilitators to capturing cancer stage at diagnosis in a population-based cancer registry: a cross-sectional survey of health information managers/clinical coders and multidisciplinary team members.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer stage is important to capture within population-based cancer registries (PBCRs) to facilitate recruitment to clinical trials, evaluate prevention programs, assess treatment impact, and forecast cancer service needs. However, capture of cancer stage at diagnosis in many PBCRs is low, stemming from missing data in cancer registrations from health services. This study aims to identify the barriers and facilitators faced by Health Information Managers (HIM)/Clinical Coders (CC) and key multidisciplinary team meeting (MDM) personnel when capturing cancer stage at diagnosis.

Method

A cross-sectional online survey was conducted with 167 HIM/CC and 58 key MDM personnel employed within Victorian hospitals. The survey included 8 descriptor questions, 12-14 5-point Li

SUBMITTER: Woodings L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12044789 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature