title: SEER*Educate: Use of Abstracting Quality Index Scores to Monitor Improvement of All Employees.
abstract: Integral parts of the Seattle-Puget Sound's Cancer Surveillance System registry's continuous improvement model include the incorporation of SEER*Educate into its training program for all staff and analyzing assessment results using the Abstracting Quality Index (AQI). The AQI offers a comprehensive measure of overall performance in SEER*Educate, which is a Web-based application used to personalize learning and diagnostically pinpoint each staff member's place on the AQI continuum. The assessment results are tallied from 6 abstracting standards within 2 domains: incidence reporting and coding accuracy. More than 100 data items are aligned to 1 or more of the 6 standards to build an aggregated score that is placed on a continuum for continuous improvement. The AQI score accurately identifies those individuals who have a good understanding of how to apply the 6 abstracting standards to reliably generate high quality abstracts.
authors.forename: Mary S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Potts
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hafterson
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D000068598:Data Accuracy; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D020407:Internet; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012042:Registries; D018426:SEER Program; D014861:Washington / Q000453:epidemiology