Improving patient care with Pan-Canadian synoptic-surgery reporting standards

August 31, 2016

Learn how the standards for synoptic-surgery reporting can improve patients’ cancer care across Canada

This infographic shows the system-wide benefits of implementing synoptic-surgery reporting across Canada.

This infographic outlines the following key points:

  • A definition of the Pan-Canadian synoptic-surgery reporting standards
  • The growing number of cancer surgeons who are improving care
  • How synoptic-surgery data is helping track and improve care
  • The overall benefits of reporting

Standardized reporting of data is important to identify and understand variations in care which, in turn, can be used to focus on optimizing quality of care, improving patient outcomes, and delivering cost-effective treatments.
-Surgical oncologist, Ontario

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