Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force Announced Members of Chicago Breast Cancer Quality ...(David Ansell Chicago Breast Cancer Qual...),Health

Date:10/30/2009

David Ansell, Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium steering committee member and chief medical officer, Rush University Medical Center. "We all know how we can improve ourselves, but it's only when we start sharing information, warts and all, across institutions that we can have regional impact on quality and safety."

Historically, healthcare providers have been reluctant to share quality data that may show quality deficits because of fear of legal discovery. To address this issue, Congress passed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005. This law created a new designation of patient safety organization that receives special federal confidentiality protections to encourage the sharing of such sensitive data.

The mission of the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium is to bring healthcare providers together to share, in a confidential manner, quality data in the area of breast cancer screening and treatment in order to identify quality deficits and implement strategies to eliminate those deficits. The Consortium's goal is to eliminate the racial health disparity in breast cancer deaths in Chicago.

Studies conducted by the Sinai Urban Health Institute have shown that African-American women in Chicago are more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer compared to Caucasian women. The mortality rate for African American women is a shocking 116 percent higher than that of white women, compared to a 47 percent disparity nationally and 21 percent in New York.

"We already know that differences exist across institutions in the quality of breast cancer screenings and diagnosis, as well as in the timeliness of screenings and treatment," said Marie Rule Gilliam, MHSA, Executive Director of the Task Force. "The medical community has now come together to track and compare quality measures in these areas, so that women in Chicago can receive the best possible diagnosis
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