| Number of key cancer physiciansa | |
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Site numberb | Baseline (CY 2006)c | Follow-up (CY 2009)d | Change | Ranking of change | Degree of changee |
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Site 1 | 8 | 11 | +3 | 8 | L |
Site 2 | 4 | 39 | +35 | 1 | H |
Site 3 | 32 | 37 | +5 | 5 | H |
Site 4 | 10 | 11 | +1 | 9 | L |
Site 5 | 9 | 18 | +9 | 3 | H |
Site 6 | 25 | 30 | +5 | 5 | H |
Site 7 | 12 | 10 | −2 | 10 | L |
Site 8 | 10 | 16 | +6 | 4 | H |
Site 9 | 17 | 38 | +19 | 2 | H |
Site 10 | 19 | 24 | +5 | 5 | H |
- aSites were asked to provide the “number and type of clinical staff” that “operate in the cancer centre [as of a given date] as noted in the definition provided.” For this variable, sites were to indicate the number and type of staff such as medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and clinical research nurses. From this information, the number of physicians was extrapolated. The count presented excludes physician assistants, physicists, dosimetrists, therapists, technicians, geneticists, phlebotomists, or any other role clearly not a physician.
- bSites have been randomly numbered to ensure confidentiality of data.
- cData Source: Baseline Assessment Survey (BAS) collected for Calendar Year (CY) 2006.
- dData Source: FAS collected for CY 2009.
- e1 = highest positive change; 10 = lowest positive change or highest negative change. Note that three hospitals reported a positive change of five additional key cancer physicians so are ranked as ties, skewing the count to seven “high” ranked sites.