Efficiency of the Cancer Care Program’s Checklist in Chulabhorn Royal Academy

Abstract

Background: The Biorepository Unit was initially established for the storage of specimens from various departments for the main purpose of biomedical research. However, several problems occurred during the management of specimens. Hence, the authors developed the Cancer Care Program’s checklist for the standardization of specimen collection. Objective: To analyze the efficiency of Cancer Care Program’s checklist. Materials and Methods: Data of 370 participants were collected in the Cancer Care Program. Fisher’s Exact and Mann-Whitney U Test were applied to analyze data and processing time of specimen collection, respectively. Results: We obtained higher numbers of informed consent and blood from participants after implementation of the checklist compared with specimen management without the checklist, with a 95% confidence interval. Additionally, the processing time of blood and colorectal tissue collection significantly improved, while other tissues showed no difference after checklist implementation. Conclusion: This is a preliminary study of checklist development for tissue sample management. After implementation of this checklist, we confirmed a higher number of informed consents and blood collection, with lower processing time of blood and colorectal tissue collection. Nonetheless, further study with more sample sizes is recommended to verify the more efficacy of tissue sample management. Keywords: Checklist, Cancer care program, Biorepository unit, Chulabhorn royal academy