I'd like to find what the productivity standards are for abstracting
in
other hospitals besides my own. I am referring to if you abstract all
day. Our administration is enforcing a new standard of 7.5 a day. We
work from 8:30-5:00 with a 1/2 hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks. So
that is a total of 7.5 hours a day. Also I would like to know if
anyone
has any literature or information on best registry practices regarding
cancer patient follow up and the importance of data collected such as
date
of first recurrence and with or without disease. That also is under
debate where I work and date of recurrence and disease status will no
longer be documented. I have a meeting coming up in the next several
weeks with upper management and would like to be able to have a
reliable
data source to help defend my position regarding the importance of
data
collected in our departments.
Thanks,
Tracy

Tracy L. Parsons, CTR