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Alberta Thoracic Oncology Program (ATOP) South - Central Access and Triage   at
Calgary Zone and Area
Central Access Healthcare Service
Connect Care Specialty: Thoracic Oncology Program
Connect Care Department: AHS SOUTH AB THORACIC ONC CAT
Alberta Health Services - Cancer Care Alberta
CENTRAL ACCESS SERVICES
This central access service is a single point of entry for individuals who may have lung cancer that are in need of a timely healthcare team assessment and facilitates initial treatment if required.
This central access service is a single point of entry for individuals who may have lung cancer that are in need of a timely healthcare team assessment and facilitates initial treatment if required.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Review eligibility requirements and referral guidelines below before making a referral.
Referrals can be submitted via:
  • Connect Care: Connect care users, refer to the following steps:
    1. Please change context/department to "Calgary Pulmonary Zone"
    2. Go to place/transcribe a ambulatory order to "Ambulatory Referral to Thoracic Oncology Program"
    3. Select Department " AHS South AB Thoracic ONC CAT"
    4. Fill out the referral accordingly, sign and send. 
  • Fax: Non Connect Care users complete referral form along with recent CT scan and brief medical history and fax it using the number listed on this profile.
  • eReferral submit a request for a specialist appointment through the eReferral Consult Request. 

OUT OF PROVINCE PATIENTS: CD with IMAGING should accompany referral as these diagnostic results are not available on NetCare.
Review eligibility requirements and referral guidelines below before making a referral.
Referrals can be submitted via:
  • Connect Care: Connect care users, refer to the following steps:
    1. Please change context/department to "Calgary Pulmonary Zone"
    2. Go to place/transcribe a ambulatory order to "Ambulatory Referral to Thoracic Oncology Program"
    3. Select Department " AHS South AB Thoracic ONC CAT"
    4. Fill out the referral accordingly, sign and send. 
  • Fax: Non Connect Care users complete referral form along with recent CT scan and brief medical history and fax it using the number listed on this profile.
  • eReferral submit a request for a specialist appointment through the eReferral Consult Request. 

OUT OF PROVINCE PATIENTS: CD with IMAGING should accompany referral as these diagnostic results are not available on NetCare.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
*Mark referral URGENT* and send a connect care referral (see routine referral process for referral pathway) or fax to 403-944-8848.
Referrals are processed according to clinical urgency. We aim to see urgent referrals within 7-14 days.
*Mark referral URGENT* and send a connect care referral (see routine referral process for referral pathway) or fax to 403-944-8848.
Referrals are processed according to clinical urgency. We aim to see urgent referrals within 7-14 days.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
The following reasons for referral are considered EMERGENT; please call 911, send to the Emergency Department or contact RAAPID
1. SVC Syndrome
2. Dyspnea at rest
3. Neurological symptoms
4. Hemoptysis > 100 ml in 24 hr
The following reasons for referral are considered EMERGENT; please call 911, send to the Emergency Department or contact RAAPID
1. SVC Syndrome
2. Dyspnea at rest
3. Neurological symptoms
4. Hemoptysis > 100 ml in 24 hr
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adult patients, 18+
Adult patients, 18+
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
The Alberta Thoracic Oncology Program supports responsive diagnosis, staging and investigation of suspected lung malignancies. To accomplish this, a team of radiologists, respirologists, thoracic surgeons, nurse practitioners and clerks work together to evaluate this patient group. Referrals are received and reviewed by a nurse practitioner who initiates the intake of information and preliminary evaluation of patients. Patients are then booked into the clinic to be seen by our interdisciplinary team.
The Alberta Thoracic Oncology Program supports responsive diagnosis, staging and investigation of suspected lung malignancies. To accomplish this, a team of radiologists, respirologists, thoracic surgeons, nurse practitioners and clerks work together to evaluate this patient group. Referrals are received and reviewed by a nurse practitioner who initiates the intake of information and preliminary evaluation of patients. Patients are then booked into the clinic to be seen by our interdisciplinary team.
 
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Timing
Additional Details
Pleural effusion
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month

Solitary nodule of lung
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month
Asymptomatic or assessment of subcentimeter lung nodules.

Urgent Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Timing
Additional Details
Hemoptysis
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month
Minor hemoptysis of 100ml or less within 24 hrs is considered Urgent (seen within 7-14 days).

Mass of chest wall
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month

Mediastinal lymphadenopathy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month
Mediastinal lymphadenopathy with suspicion of lymphoma is considered Urgent (seen within 7-14 days).

Pleural effusion
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month
Pleural effusion symptomatic at rest is considered Urgent (seen within 7-14 days).

Primary malignant neoplasm of lung
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Allergies?
 
Current

Any relevant symptoms history: hemoptysis, pain, breathlessness, weight loss?
 
Current

Indicate oxygen, anticoagulation requirements
 
Current

Smoking history?
 
Current

CT Chest
 
Within 1 month
Suspected symptomatic lung cancer is considered Urgent (seen within 7-14 days).

Emergent Reason for Referral
Additional Details
Hemoptysis
100mls or more within 24 hours is considered EMERGENT call 911 or proceed to nearest Emergency Department.

The primary purpose of the All Locations list is to let the user easily access any location of a healthcare service without going back to the main search screen.

The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the healthcare service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Healthcare Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Healthcare Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the Healthcare Service@location will not show in the Red list.

The secondary purpose of the All Locations list is to allow ARD Administrators to recover (copy) referral information from the non-current Healthcare Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

ADDITONAL NOTES:
  • The info icon after the All Locations drop down will be visible to ARD Administrators.
  • The system doesn't allow you to copy referral information from one non-current Healthcare Service@Location to another.

 

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