NSW Cancer Registry: What we found - Completeness and reach

Completeness

The Registry’s implementation of new technologies has generated a widely expanded data collection for all people diagnosed with cancer across the state, including rural and remote radiation oncology centres (from 17 in 2019 to 39 in 2022 = increase of 129%) and medical oncology centres (from 25 in 2019 to 41 in 2022 = increase of 64%).

Figure 1. Scanned document vs electronic data collection

Transition from manual to electronic data collection (as shown in Figure 1) has reduced duplication, omission of data entry and errors and improved data quality and completeness. As of September 2022, systems for capturing high quality data electronically have been completed across all metropolitan and regional pathology providers (18 out of 19).

In total, over 2.5 million cancer notifications have been received since 2015 with data showing a steady increase in completeness of 63% between 2015 and 2021.

The implementation of data engineering pipelines (n = 16) has increased the completeness of the data leading to faster data transformation. Between 2016 and 2021, the average days to analyse data reduced from 566 to 213 days (see Figure 2). 

Figure 2. Average days to analyse data

 

Reach

In 2019, there were 15 public and 2 private radiation oncology services and 25 public medical oncology services that submitted cancer data electronically. As of September 2022, the reach for electronic reporting increased to:

  • Public Radiation Oncology services: 20 (up by 33%)
  • Private Radiation Oncology service: 19 (up by 850%)
  • Public Medical Oncology services : 35 (up by 40%)
  • Private Medical Oncology services: 6 (nil in 2019)

 

Figure 3. Radiation Oncology services
Figure 4. Medical Oncology services
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