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Cancer System Quality Index (CSQI) 2012

Safe Good Rating: Good. Some processes and standards for a safe cancer system are in place. However, we need better measures of safety from the patient's perspective.
Effective Very Good Rating: Very Good. Cancer services are generally effective and evidence-based.
Accessible Good Rating: Good. More Ontarians are accessing the services they need but efforts need to continue.
Responsive Fair Rating: Fair. Ontario's cancer system needs to focus more on patients' and survivors' quality of life, both during and after active treatment.
Equitable Poor Rating: Poor. Cancer burden is still higher among those with lower socio-economic status. More work needs to be done using a whole-of-society approach to ensure equity.
Integrated Poor Rating: Poor. We have better data for measures that bridge across the cancer system, but more improvement is needed to ensure a seamless journey for patients and survivors.
Efficient Fair Rating: Fair. We need to better measure cost efficiency and value for money, while maintaining good health outcomes for all Ontarians.
* Very Good Very Good Good Good Fair Fair Poor Poor Incomplete Data Incomplete Data  
*These symbols provide an overall assessment of cancer system performance for each dimension of quality. They include at an aggregate level, an assessment of performance over time, performance against annual programmatic targets, jurisdictional comparisons and/or clinical aims for those measures available in the index. Breadth and depth of indicators across the patient continuum and type of indicator are taken into account in the assessment.
quote If I got a phone call today from someone who was newly diagnosed, I think I would reassure them by telling them that the treatments today are much better, first of all, than they were 23 years ago.
John,
diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 46
In My Words

Special Focus

Lung Cancer in Ontario: Now and Future Ontario's Cancer System: Then and Now (PDF)

View the webcast of the CSQI 2012 launch event

Ontario's 8th annual update on the performance of the cancer system

The first of its kind in North America, the CSQI:
  • Tracks Ontario’s progress against cancer
  • Shows where quality and performance improvements are needed
  • Reports on 32 evidence-based quality measures covering every aspect of cancer control, from cancer prevention to end-of-life care