NCDB Reporting Tools for Cancer Programs

Improve Patient Care

Quality Measures (QM) Report

Primary Use
Monitor compliance with CoC evidence-based quality measures and identify cases requiring review or quality improvement.

Data Included
Case eligibility, concordance status, estimated performance rates (EPR), numerator/denominator counts, treatment summaries, and benchmark statu

Alerts Report

Primary Use
Identify patients approaching or exceeding treatment timelines to improve timeliness of care and support quality measure compliance.

Data Included
Cases approaching or exceeding treatment timelines for selected Quality Measures, plus applicable edit errors.

NCDB Survival Reports

Primary Use
Evaluate long-term patient outcomes and compare survival across patient groups.

Data Included
Overall observed survival by cancer site, stage, sex, age, and comorbidity.

Cancer Quality Improvement Program (CQIP)

Primary Use
Use an annual executive-level summary to benchmark performance and identify quality improvement priorities.

Data Included
Annual PowerPoint summary combining Hospital Comparison, Survival, RCRS quality measures, operative mortality, and risk-adjusted survival.

Benchmark Performance

NCDB Benchmark Reports

Primary Use
Benchmark clinical practice, treatment patterns, timeliness, and disparities against CoC state, regional, and national programs.

Data Included
Patient demographics, stage distribution, tumor characteristics, treatments, and Days-to-Treatment metrics compared with CoC state, regional, and national program benchmarks including complete data submitted within the prior month.

Comparisons Report

Primary Use
Compare quality measure performance across facilities, states, regions, ACS Divisions, program categories, and CoC programs.

Data Included
Quality measure performance compared with CoC facility, state, region, ACS Division, program category, or all CoC programs, with demographic stratification.

Strengthen Data and Compliance

Completeness Report

Primary Use
Identify missing, unknown, or incomplete registry data to improve data quality.

Data Included
Registry data fields with missing, unknown, or incomplete values compared with national five-year averages within RCRS.

Submission Compliance Report

Primary Use
Track monthly submissions, edit-free rates, and timeliness to support RCRS reporting requirements.

Data Included
Monthly case upload status, percentage of edit-free submissions, diagnosis year progress, primary site counts, and submission timeliness for complete analytic cancer cases submitted to RCRS

Case Log Report

Primary Use
Monitor submission status, registry errors, duplicate records, and data submitted to RCRS.

Data Included
Complete and incomplete RCRS submitted cases, diagnosis year, primary site, submission history, edit errors, duplicate cases, and case details.

Participant User Files (PUF)

Primary Use
Access HIPAA-compliant, de-identified patient-level NCDB data for research, outcomes analysis, and quality improvement.

Data Included
HIPAA-compliant, de-identified patient-level NCDB research dataset.