Exceeding Expectations: How We Maintain High One-Year Survival

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The FACT Education Committee, in conjunction with the Clinical Outcomes Improvement Committee, presented a webinar on June 12, 2019, at 3:00 pm ET, highlighting transplant programs that consistently exceed expected one-year survival rates as reported in the CIBMTR Transplant-Center Specific Survival Report. This webinar consisted of presentations from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Northside Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the FACT inspectors who evaluated them during the most recent inspections. Program representatives discussed the following: 1) how the program analyzes and trends clinical outcomes including survival, 2) aspects of the program believed to contribute to consistently high one-year survival (e.g., processes, guidelines, education, and any other aspect), and 3) any examples of instances in which the program made adjustments after detecting declining survival rates for a given set of patients. The inspector from each program discussed his impression of the program and opinions on why the program consistently achieves high survival rates.