Diagnostics working group
The projects designated as priorities for the diagnostics working group include reducing time from first evaluation to diagnostic confirmation and increasing access and timelines for leukemia and solid tumor diagnostics. The first objective is to reduce the time from suspicion to confirmation to 4 weeks in 70% of children by implementing an effective referral system within a 24-month period, with a 2-month milestone of defining the referral pathway to be implemented, and a 9-month milestone of monitoring the number and percentage of patients in the pathway. The second objective is to reduce to 2 weeks the time for reporting flow cytometry or immunohistochemistry results in 70% of samples submitted for analysis within a 24-month period, with a 10-month milestone of evaluating percentage of samples reported timely.