Interdisciplinary collaboration serving patients!
Receiving the Hippocrates Award in the category of Interdisciplinary Innovation in Quality and Quality Management allowed us to highlight our interdisciplinary collaboration and its benefits for our patients and the Estrie community. This recognition was a wonderful honor, an opportunity to showcase this innovation and to thank our teams for their dedication.
Since last fall, we have added 24 time slots per week for 68Ga-PSMA-617 radiotracer exams. As a result, we were able to perform over 660 exams in 2023–2024. In the spirit of continuous improvement, the nuclear medicine teams have continued to optimize their practices. Among other things, we have reduced the use of radioisotopes per patient, as well as the time between injection and examination. This reorganization has allowed us to perform more exams per production run—approximately 160 more exams than our initial target. Since the start of the transition to clinical practice, nearly 1,000 patients have benefited from this exam, with approximately 38% of those served coming from outside the University of Sherbrooke’s Integrated University Health and Social Services Network (RUISSS).
Regular exchanges continue between the clinic and the research team to improve service delivery. For now, we are able to meet demand by monitoring it closely and coordinating on the clinical priorities of patients awaiting exams. The nuclear medicine and research team remains on the lookout for collaboration opportunities in order to serve a larger number of people.
2023 INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION AWARD IN QUALITY AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Project: Prostate Cancer Detection and Improved Access to Services
Team led by Ms. Sylvie Martel, Multidisciplinary Services, and Dr. Eric Turcotte, Researcher
CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS-CRCHUS
