Reporting of Quality Measures in Gynecologic Oncology Programs at Prospective Payment System (PPS)-Exempt Cancer Hospitals: An Early Glimpse into a Challenging Initiative

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"Given the early requirement for and familiarity with reporting quality measures by the 11 PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, we set out to determine whether the directors of the gynecologic oncology programs in the PPS-exempt cancer hospitals could agree upon reasonable and appropriate quality measures specific to the care of women with
gynecologic cancers."

Conclusions: There is wide variability in ranking of quality measures, and may relate to provider or institutional factors. Despite the mandatory reporting in PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, work remains to define gynecologic cancer quality measures.

"...In summary, while the importance of quality gynecologic cancer
care is widely recognized as the means by which patients will receive optimal care, the current state of knowledge regarding the specific measures that are important to gynecologic oncologists are less clear. Despite mandatory reporting of some quality measures by PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, (links of interest - search) it is imperative that discussions amongst providers of gynecologic cancer continue towards the creation of national registries that can begin to define important quality measures."