Department Audit 2026

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Audit 2026

Completeness of the data, follow-up and recruitment delay of each department during 2026, by four-month period.

23

Departments with activity

1,709

Procedures in the period

1.5

Missing values per procedure

35

Median days to registration

Method

How each department is audited

The audit reads what each department recorded in the Lung Resection Process: how complete the data are, how long the follow-up is and how soon the procedures are registered.

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The assessment of missing values is based on the date of surgery, not on the date of registration.

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Departments are grouped in quintiles by their number of procedures in the period: Q1 holds the departments with the highest volume.

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The audit of recruitment timing is limited to the use of the REDCap platform, from 2025 onwards. Second or consecutive procedures on the same patient are not considered.

Missing values

How complete is the data

Missing values per procedure in each department, by quintile of activity.

  • Meets the criterion of its quintile
  • Does not meet it

Perioperative subprocess · 19 variables

Variables of the Preop, Surgery, Postop, Readmission and 90-day Status forms.

Oncology subprocess: diagnosis · 9 variables

Only procedures with a diagnosis of primary lung cancer, or with a missing diagnosis, are considered.

Oncology subprocess · Follow-up

How long patients are followed

Departments by quintile of procedures in lung cancer patients, with the missing values of the Follow-up form and the median follow-up.

  • Procedures with a diagnosis of primary lung cancer performed between 01-01-2023 and 31-12-2024.
  • Missing values are counted across 3 variables of the Follow-up form.
  • Median follow-up is expressed in months.
  • Meets the criterion of its quintile
  • Does not meet it

Recruitment delay

How soon procedures are registered

Recruitment delay is the number of days elapsed between the date of surgery and the date the procedure was recorded in the REDCap platform.

  • Only procedures performed in 2026 are considered.

Distribution by department

Surgical activity

The pace of surgical activity

Timing of the surgical activity of each department. Whenever recruitment rates are not audited, wide gaps between points can act as a surrogate, suggesting poor rates.

Procedures every 10 days

Departments

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Audit 2024

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