NCRA RECAP: Rhode Island Central Registry

One presentation that impressed me was the Workplace Exchange: Improving Data Completeness, Quality and Timeliness presented by Nancy Lebrun, CTR. Some central registries find it difficult to build productive professional relationships with facility based cancer registries. This difficulty can arise when the two registries do not understand each other’s duties and registry activities resulting in low or late case submissions and incomplete case submissions.  The Rhode…

Posted on May. 2, 2017 in News & Events

May is National Trauma Awareness Month!

This May, National Trauma Awareness month celebrates it’s 29th year participating in the “Stop the Bleed” campaign. Per the American Trauma Society (ATS) website, “StopTheBleed is a nationwide campaign to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives. Uncontrolled bleeding injuries can result from natural and manmade disasters and from everyday accidents. If this bleeding is severe, it can kill within minutes, potentially before trained responders…

Posted on May. 1, 2017 in From Our Perspective