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ACSQHC-ARCR-181

Prioritised clinical domain
High Burden Cancer
Abbreviation
SACCR
Registry contact

Helen Thomas, Director, Epidemiology Branch, Wellbeing SA, Helen.Thomas2@sa.gov.au

Year established
1987
Description

The South Australian Clinical Cancer Registry monitors and provides information on the safety and quality of cancer care in the health system, and provides information for the evaluation of any new treatments or models of care and for research purposes.

The SACCR collects data including clinically derived stage, grade, differentiation, treatments, prognostic indicators for patients treated at participating South Australian hospitals. This collection complements the population-based SA Cancer Registry. Historically a number of cancer sites were collected, current priority cancer types with the SACCR collection include breast, colorectal, lung, melanoma and gynaecological cancers.

Reporting process
  • Shared with clinicians upon request
  • Feedback to contributing clinicians 
  • Publications in collaboration with clinicians and HREC approvals
  • Long term plans are to provide these data for data analysis in aggregate format using internal visualisation tools and reporting systems within the Department for Health and Wellbeing
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Nil

Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs)

Nil

Participating sites

South Australia

  • Flinders Medical Centre
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • The Royal Adelaide Hospital
Condition
Cancer
Name
South Australian Clinical Cancer Registry
Lead organisation
Wellbeing SA (attached office of the Department for Health and Wellbeing)
Ethics approval reference
Quality improvement initiative. The registry is gazetted and authorised under Part 7 section 64 of the Health Care Act 2008 (SA).
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