Last Update: 21/02/2012 11:07
The ANZGOSA Audit has been designed for the Australian and New
Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgical Association
(ANZGOSA) as a self-assessment tool for their members.
It has been set up to collect and store clinical and
pathological details of patients undergoing surgery for
oesophago-gastric cancer or gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST)
in Australia and New Zealand.
This data will also be used for research and analysis on
treatment for these patients in Australia and New Zealand. The
ultimate aim is to evaluate, improve and maintain the quality of
care provided by ANZGOSA surgeons.
Surgeons submit data through an online portal via secure log-in.
This portal was officially launched on the 31 August 2010 and is
accessible from the ANZGOSA website. Any information supplied to
the audit through this portal is hosted in a secure database and
encrypted to ensure patient and surgeon privacy.
The audit has been declared a Quality
Assurance Activity under the Commonwealth Health Insurance
(Quality Assurance Confidentiality) Amendment Act 1992 in Australia
and has been declared a protected
quality assurance activity under the Health Practitioners
Competence Assurance Act 2003 in New Zealand. The purpose of this
legislation is to ensure that information that becomes available as
a result of the activity can not be disclosed, other than for
general reporting purposes (i.e. annual reports, research
papers).
Surgeons
Data can be submitted to the audit through the secure online portal. To
become part of this initiative and gain access to the online
portal, please contact the College managers of the audit on +61 8
8219 0918 or email the audit helpdesk at anzgosa.audit@surgeons.org.
Patients
A patient is entitled to request their clinical information be
kept out of the audit. This is called "opting-out", details of
which can be found on the patient
information sheet (PDF 70 KB) given out to all patients prior
to entering their data online.
Useful documents
User manual (PDF 399 KB) -
Provides assistance in navigating the online portal.
Data dictionary (PDF
550 KB) - Gives specific information on each field in the
dataset and how to answer.
Patient
information/opt-out sheet (PDF 70 KB) - All patients need to
receive this information sheet prior to entering their data
online.
List of
fields in ANZGOSA Audit (PDF 52 KB) - This contains a list of
all questions in the audit for illustrative purposes only.
Data collection
form (PDF 401 KB) - To collect data prior to entry into the
online system.
Contact
ANZGOSA Audit
Morbidity Audits Department
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
199 Ward Street
North Adelaide SA 5006 Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8219 0918
Fax: +61 8 8219 0999
Email: anzgosa.audit@surgeons.org.