Association of Peer Comparison Emails With Electronic Health Record Documentation of Cancer Stage by Oncologists.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Systematically capturing cancer stage is essential for any serious effort by health systems to monitor outcomes and quality of care in oncology. However, oncologists do not routinely record cancer stage in machine-readable structured fields in electronic health records (EHRs).

Objective

To evaluate whether a peer comparison email intervention that communicates an oncologist's performance on documenting cancer stage relative to that of peer physicians was associated with increased likelihood that stage was documented in the EHR.

Design, setting, and participants

This 12-month, randomized quality improvement pilot study aimed to increase oncologist staging documentation in the EHR. The pilot study was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

SUBMITTER: Sinaiko AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539129 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature