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Cancer Institute NSW
Evaluation of the Cancer Institute NSW web based
portal eviQ
Cancer Health Professionals Survey
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PURPOSE
The Cancer Institute NSW is undertaking a project to evaluate the Cancer Institute NSW web
based portal eviQ.
The evaluation is intended to answer the following questions:
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Is eviQ a quality resource (usability, acceptability, content, governance)?
How can this quality be maintained and/or improved?
How effective is the eviQ program in achieving the intended outcomes?
What are the enablers and barriers to sustainability ongoing?; and
What are the unintended outcomes?
This survey, which forms part of the project, seeks information from cancer health professionals
who provide point of care cancer treatment and care. Specifically the survey seeks information
about how cancer health professionals use and access eviQ as well as seeking a measure of the
impact of eviQ on awareness and adoption of best evidence based practice. This work will, in
turn, enable the Cancer Institute NSW to determine how effective eviQ is in clinical practice and
identify areas for improvement and sustainability.
PROCESS
An invite to this survey will be emailed to all cancer health professionals in NSW via the
Directors of Cancer Services and/or Cancer Services Development Managers within each Local
Health District. There will also be an invite posted on the eviQ website.
If you choose to fill in this survey in Microsoft Word, to ‘cross’ the boxes, just double click on
the box and select ‘checked’. To remove a cross from one of the boxes, simply double click
again on the box and select ‘not checked’.
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Evaluation of the Cancer Institute NSW web based portal eviQ
Cancer health professionals survey
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Survey completion guidelines
The survey form contains 29 questions. Please answer every applicable question. The Cancer
Institute NSW will analyse the de-identified answers to these questions and develop an evaluation
report which will be published, at a minimum, as a Cancer Institute NSW monograph available
from the Cancer Institute NSW website www.cancerinstitute.org.au.
Please be assured that all the data you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and
anonymous. The survey analysis will be reported only in aggregate form in the
evaluation report.
Please complete the survey by 30th October 2011.
Completing the survey will be taken as implied consent to participating in the project. Please
note that you are under no obligation to complete the survey and you can withdraw from the
survey at any time without consequences.
If you have any questions relating to the survey process or its content, or if you require assistance
to complete the survey please contact:
Dr Cynthia Lean
Manager Operations and Evaluation
Cancer Institute NSW
Phone: 02 8374 5625
Email: [email protected]
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Evaluation of the Cancer Institute NSW web based portal eviQ
Cancer health professionals survey
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Section 1: Information about you
(1) Which of the following best describes your role?
(a) Medical clinician:
Surgeon
Medical Oncologist
Radiation Oncologist
Other Staff Specialist/Visiting Medical Officer
Specialist-in-training
Other Resident medical officer or Medical Intern
Primary care practitioner (GP, RACGP trainee)
Other (please specify):
(b) Nursing:
Nurse unit manager
Clinical nurse consultant
Clinical nurse specialist
Nurse/clinical nurse educator
Registered nurse
Enrolled nurse
Community nurse
Other (please specify):
Radiation therapist
Medical physicist
Pharmacist
(c) Allied health:
Social worker
Psychologist
Dietician
Physiotherapist
Other (please specify):
Academic
Clinical information manager
Other, please specify:
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(2) Are you currently an eviQ reference committee member?
Yes (go to question 3)
No (go to question 4)
No, but I was in the past (go to question 3)
(3) What reference committee group were/are you a member of?
Adolescent and young adult (AYA)
Nursing
Cancer genetics
Palliative care
Haematology
Patient and carer
Haematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation (HPCT)
Primary health care
Medical oncology
Radiation oncology
Radiation oncology nursing
Medical physicist
Other (please specify)
(4) What is your main area of work?
Medical oncology
Radiation oncology/therapy
General practice/primary care
Adolescent/Paediatrics
Genetics
Haematology (including HPCT)
Palliative care
Care coordination
Other, please specify the area:
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(5) What types of cancer(s) do you treat and/or provide care for? (you may select more than one)
All
Not applicable
Neurological
Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers
Breast cancer
Sarcoma
Colon/rectal cancers
Testicular cancer
Gynaecological cancers
Upper gastrointestinal cancer
Head or neck cancers
Urogenital cancer
Respiratory cancers
Haematological malignancies (including (HPCT))
Other (please specify)
Section 2: Your health care organisation
(6) What is the name of the main health care organisation you work in?
(7) Which jurisdiction is your health care organisation located in?
NSW (go question 8)
NT (go question 9)
QLD (go question 9)
SA (go question 9)
TAS (go question 9)
VIC (go question 9)
WA (go question 9)
ACT (go question 9)
Overseas (go question 9)
(8) Which Local Health District (LHD)/Network does your health care organisation belong to:
(please select only one)
Not applicable
Illawarra Shoalhaven
Nepean Blue Mountain
Central Coast
Murrumbidgee
Sydney
Hunter New England
South Eastern Sydney
St Vincent’s Network
Mid North Coast
Southern NSW
Children’s Hospital Network
Northern NSW
Western Sydney
Justice Health
Northern Sydney
South Western Sydney
Far West
Western NSW
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Section 3: Information about how you use eviQ
(9)
Do you use eviQ?
Yes (go to question 10)
No. Please indicate an appropriate reason (select more than one if appropriate)
Not applicable to my practice (survey ends)
Already aware of best evidence based practice in cancer care (survey ends)
The protocols I use are not available on eviQ (survey ends)
Unable to access a computer (survey ends)
Other (please specify):
(survey ends)
I do not know what eviQ is (survey ends)
(10) Which of the following best describes how frequently you use eviQ?
Daily
Monthly
Weekly
Less than monthly
Fortnightly
Hardly ever
(11) How do you access eviQ in your organisation?
Individual log in
Health care organisation (group) log in:
I use both an individual and group log in
(12) Do you find the eviQ website easy/hard to use?
Very easy to use
Easy to use
Hard to use
Very difficult to use
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(13) How do you use eviQ? (please check one response for each category)
I use eviQ...
Never
Rarely
Occasionally
Routinely
This is not
part of my
role
(a) in real time whilst treating a patient
(b) for research purposes
(c) for training purposes
(d) to compare treatment options
(e)
to plan treatment
(f)
to assist in prescribing treatment
(g)
to give patients information
(h) to guide treatment administration
(i)
to find medicine cost information
(j) to guide dose adjustments
(k) to refer to best practice evidence about effective
treatments and care
(l) for nursing procedures
(m) for pre & post medication information
(n) for information on side effects/toxicity
(o) to communicate to colleagues what treatment is
being given
(14) Have you ever attended an eviQ education session or presentation?
Yes, I received education provided by my health care organisation
Yes, I received education provided by the Cancer Institute NSW or other organisation
No
(15) Is training required to use eviQ?
Yes, I think that a training course/session is beneficial
No, I do not think eviQ training is required
(16) Do you have any ideas of how to improve the use of eviQ?
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Section 4: Accessing eviQ
(17) Please indicate your view regarding eviQ access at your health care organisation(s) (please
check one response for each category)
eviQ access
Yes
No
I don’t
know
Not
applicable
(a) There is sufficient computer access to use eviQ when I
need it
(b) Internet speed is adequate for eviQ access
(c) Some eviQ protocols are incorporated into our own
hospital protocols
(d) Hospital policy stipulates eviQ as our main protocol
source
(e) There is no official hospital policy on preferred
protocol sources
(f) Our computers have a link to eviQ on the desktop
(g) eviQ is endorsed by LHD and/or health care
organisation management
(h) eviQ is perceived as the default information source for
the safe delivery of best evidence based cancer
treatment and care
(18) Are there any enablers and/or barriers to using and/or accessing eviQ? (select more than one
response if appropriate)
Enablers
Barriers
No enablers
No barriers
Time
Time
Support from the health care organisation
Support from the health care organisation
Support from the Cancer Institute NSW
Support from the Cancer Institute NSW
Health care organisation policy
Health care organisation policy
Access to a computer
Access to a computer
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
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(19) Do you have any ideas how the accessibility of eviQ can be improved and/or maintained?
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Section 5: eviQ Content
(20) What components of eviQ do you use? (please check one response for each category)
Components of eviQ
(a)
Always
Sometimes
Never
Not
applicable
clinical procedures
(b) chemotherapy treatment protocols
(c)
radiation therapy treatment protocols
(d) patient information sheets
(e)
supportive therapy information
(f)
assessment tools
(g)
management of side effects
(h) biological equivalent dose calculator
(i)
opioid calculator
(j)
eviQ dose calculator
(k) other resources (please specify below)
If ‘other resources’ please specify:
(21) In areas where you do not use an eviQ protocol, can you describe what you use instead?
(select more than one response if appropriate)
Hospital/unit/health care organisation protocol(s)
My own research and/or protocol(s)
Other (please specify):
Not applicable
(22) What do you think about the currency and relevancy of eviQ? (please check one response for each category)
Question
(a)
Yes
No
Don’t
know
Is eviQ content current (i.e. up-to-date)?
(b) Is the eviQ content relevant to your clinical practice?
(c)
Is eviQ content updated regularly and reviewed in a timely manner?
(d) Do you trust that eviQ is a quality resource?
(23) Do you have any ideas of how the content on eviQ can be improved and/or maintained?
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Section 6: eviQ governance
(24) Are you aware of the governance arrangements underpinning eviQ (including protocol
development etc)?
Yes
No (go to question 26)
(25) Do you have any ideas of how the governance arrangements underpinning eviQ can be
improved and/or maintained?
Section 7: Impact of eviQ on clinical care
(26) Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements.
Statements……
Strongly
Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly
disagree
I don’t
know
Not
applicable
(a) My knowledge of best evidence based practice has
improved as a result of eviQ
(b) My confidence in good clinical decision making has
improved as a result of eviQ
(c) My awareness of clinical variation in cancer care
has increased as a result of eviQ
(d) In your experience eviQ has resulted in a decrease
in clinical variation
(e) Compliance with evidence based clinical protocols
has increased as a result of eviQ
(f) eviQ has standardised best evidence based cancer
care and support
(27) Have any other initiatives (not eviQ) in your health care organisation had an impact on
reducing clinical variation?
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(28) Please indicate what impact you think eviQ has had on the quality of cancer services?
Has eviQ...
Yes
No
Don’t
know
eviQ was
not
designed
to
achieve
this
Not
applicable
(a) Reduced the number of adverse events reported at your
health care organisation
(b) Improved the survival rate for people with caner
(c) Improved the quality of life of people with cancer
(d) In your experience eviQ has improved the overall quality
of cancer services
Section 8: Other comments
(29) Do you have any other comments you would like to make about eviQ?
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Your assistance is greatly
appreciated.