title: Dashboard report on performance on select quality indicators to cancer care providers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Cancer quality registers are attracting increasing attention as important, but still underutilized sources of clinical data. To optimize the use of registers in quality assurance and improvement, data have to be rapidly collected, collated and presented as actionable, at-a-glance information to the reporting departments. This article presents a dashboard performance report on select quality indicators to cancer care providers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ten quality indicators registered on an individual patient level in the National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and recommended by the National Prostate Cancer Guidelines were selected. Data reported to the National Prostate Cancer Register are uploaded within 24 h to the Information Network for Cancer Care platform. Launched in 2014, "What''s Going On, Prostate Cancer" provides rapid, at-a-glance performance feedback to care providers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The indicators include time to report to the National Prostate Cancer Register, waiting times, designated clinical nurse specialist, multidisciplinary conference, adherence to guidelines for diagnostic work-up and treatment, and documentation and outcome of treatment. For each indicator, three performance levels were defined.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  What's Going On, a dashboard performance report on 10 selected quality indicators to cancer care providers, provides an example of how data in cancer quality registers can be transformed into condensed, at-a-glance information to be used as actionable metrics for quality assurance and improvement.
authors.affiliation: a 1 Department of Surgery and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University Hospital , Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Pär
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stattin
authors.affiliation: b 2 Regional Cancer Centre Uppsala Örebro, Uppsala University Hospital , Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Fredrik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sandin
authors.affiliation: c 3 Evry Consulting , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sandbäck
authors.affiliation: d 4 Department of Urology, Sahlgrenska Academy , Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Jan-Erik
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Damber
authors.affiliation: e 5 Department of Oncology, Sahlgrenska Academy , Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ingela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Franck Lissbrant
authors.affiliation: a 1 Department of Surgery and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University Hospital , Umeå, Sweden.|f 6 Department of Urology, Ryhov County Hospital , Jönköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: g 7 Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University , Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ola
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bratt
authors.affiliation: b 2 Regional Cancer Centre Uppsala Örebro, Uppsala University Hospital , Uppsala, Sweden.|h 8 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Mats
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lambe
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D013548:Sweden; D061665:Time-to-Treatment / Q000592:standards
keywords: Cancer quality registers; quality improvement; quality measurement