Équipe d'évaluation du PQDCS
The evaluation of the Programme québécois de dépistage du cancer du sein (PQDCS) is based primarily on the analysis of performance indicators as defined in the PQDCS guidelines. Methods were initially developed to measure performance indicators at the provincial level and then in individual regions. The goal of this report is to develop an approach for the measurement and comparison of performance indicators at the screening centre level.
The indicators selected to evaluate the performance of individual centres are: the detection rate, recall rate, and number of false positives per screen detected cancer. These indicators are estimated separately for initial and subsequent screens. The percentage of in situ cancers, the percentage of small invasive cancers, and the percentage of lymph nodenegative invasive cancers were also selected. To evaluate a centre's performance, these indicator measurements were compared to the measurements for Quebec as a whole, as well as with the…