Surveys: What’s In It For You?

Each year we use a number of approaches to get feedback from all of you who are part of the ACS Cancer Programs. This information helps guide how we develop and deliver new material. For example, in early spring, soon after we launch new accreditation and staging standards, national quality improvement projects, and database changes, we host a dialogue at the ACS Cancer Conference. In the summer, we host a dialogue on national quality improvement projects at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference.  Between meetings we host webinars and share information through this newsletter, but we also find ourselves needing more feedback from all of you so we can conduct mid-year planning; hence, the surveys.

This month we asked you to complete the Survivorship Services Survey. We thank the more than 200 who have completed it and hope that many more of you will join in today or tomorrow by completing the survey sent to your Cancer Program Administrator via REDCap@facs.org (for questions please reach out to cancerresearchprogram@facs.org).

We realize these surveys take your time and effort, but without your input, we will not be able to develop standards that are feasible and impactful for your program. For example, we already have some idea from those who completed the Survivorship Services Survey that programs have made real progress in defining and offering survivorship resources to patients, but that programs feel there is still room to improve. There is no simple solution to helping meet the needs of all cancer survivors, but we can take the next step together with the information you provide about your current program and your future aspirations.