PROCARE – project on cancer of the rectum

Publications of PROCARE

Guidelines 

Quality indicators

Publications on the PROCARE project

Press releases

Minutes of Steering Group meetings

Newsletters

Presentations

Varia

 

Guidelines

Multidisciplinary guidelines for the treatment of rectal cancer
(Dec. 2007):

English, introduction in Dutch

English, introduction in French
 
 
Guidelines pathology (Oct. 2006)

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Quality indicators

Quality of care indicators rectal cancer:
English, introduction in Dutch
English, introduction in French
 

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Publications on the PROCARE project

Caring about the quality of surgical care in Belgium. Why and how opening lecture of the 5th Belgian Surgical Week.
Acta chir belg, 2004, 104, 243-245
On the role of radiologists in the Belgian project on cancer of the rectum, PROCARE.
JBR-BTR, 2006, 89:19-22
Survival of Rectal Cancer Patients in Belgium 1997-98 and the Potential Benefit of a National Project.
Acta chir belg, 2006, 106, 149-157
Performance of candidate TME instructors: preliminary results of the PROCARE project.
Abstract BSW 2007
Pathological assessment of the rectal cancer resection specimen by A. Hoorens et al.
BJMO 2009; vol 3;6:251-260
Factors predicting the quality of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.                                                                                                       Ann Surg. 2010, 252(6),982-8
Evidence-based medicine: the time has come to set standards for staging.                                                                                                           J Pathol. 2010, 221(4), 357-60
Quality of care indicators in rectal cancer.                                             Acta gastroenterol Belg. 2011, 74(3), 445-450
European quality assurance programme in rectal cancer – are we ready to launch?                                                                               Colorectal Dis. 2011, 4, doi: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2011.02845.x.
PROCARE: What is on the agenda.                                                     Acta chir belg, 2012, 112, 8-9
Defunctioning stoma and anastomotic leak rate after total mesorectal excision with coloanal anastomosis in the context of PROCARE.                                                                                                 Acta chir belg, 2012, 112, 10-14
Exploring limits for data registration in the context of PROCARE, a quality improvement project on rectal cancer.                                     Acta chir belg, 2012, 112, 15-23
Risk adjusted benchmarking of clinical anastomotic leakage rate after total mesorectal excision in the context of an improvement project.                                                                                                     Colorectal Dis. 2012, 9, doi: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.02977.x.
The EURECCA project: data items scored by European colorectal cancer audit registries.                                                                                  Eur J Surg Oncol. 2012, 38(6): 467-471.
Risk adjusted benchmarking of abdominoperineal excision for rectal adenocarcinoma in the context of the Belgian PROCARE improvement project.                                                                              Gut. 2013, 62(7):1005-1011.  
Need for objective and reproducible criteria in histopathological assessment of total mesorectal excision specimens: lessons from a national improvement project.                                                   Colorect Dis, 2013, 15(11): 1351-1358.
Commentary on "Need for objective and reproducible criteria in histopathological assessment of total mesorectal excision specimens: lessons from a national improvement project.                  Colorect Dis, 2013, 15(11): 1358-1360.
Does central review platform improve the quality of radiotherapy for rectal cancer? Results of a national quality assurance project. Radiother Oncol, 2014 (in press)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Press releases

03/07/2008
Following the quality of rectum cancer treatment in order to improve it: a first in Belgium
22/12/2007
National recommendation for the rectum cancer treatment: the first step in a project to improve quality, unique in its kind
03/12/2007
PROCARE: A national project for the rectum cancer treatment

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Minutes of Steering Group meetings

2011
 
2010
December 13th 2011
May 5th 2011
November 9th 2010
May 12th 2010
April 20th 2010
2009
November 4th 2009
May 4th 2009
2008
October 28th 2008  
April 22th 2008  
2007
August 29th 2007
February 22th 2007
2006
March 20th 2006
January 30th 2006
2004

November 23th 2004

September 13th 2004

2003
October 20th 2003

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Newsletters       

General
November 2014
February 2013
March 2010
July 2008
Radiologists
Newsletter RBRS 2011
Surgeons
October 2006  
January 2006
November 2005
Pathologists
October 2006 (Dutch)
October 2006 (French)

Presentations
15/06/2014
Voordracht Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde: Kwaliteit versus volume: wat heeft het PROCARE project ons geleerd?
20/09/2012
07/09/2012
 
23/03/2012
Laparoscopic versus open TME, a reality check
PROCARE, key observations. Leuven, Farewell Symposium Prof. Freddy Penninckx
Lessons from PROCACE and proposal for the future. Summary prefinal report.
18/09/2011
QA of surgery for rectal cancer
18/09/2011
Procare defunctioning stoma and leak rate after TME
24/03/2011
PROCARE and the Belgian Cancer Registry, a tandem working in harmony
18/02/2011
Presentation Belgian Week of Gastroenterology
26/04/2010
Glem-Lok Halle: PROCARE, project on cancer of the rectum
05/02/2010
Paris: 4th International Seminar of Surgical Oncology
05/06/2009
Santhéa Bruxelles-Namur: Le projet PROCARE
30/04/2009
Presentation Belgian Surgical Week
07/06/2008
Boston: Annual Meeting and Tripartite Meeting of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS)
24/01/2004
Verbier : Marc-Claude Marti Lecture

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Varia

Annual report 2010
Annual report 2011
PROCARE Publication Policy


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