ASTRO PAAROT Program
Version 2.0 Now Available

Free access to the 2008 PAAROT program ended December 31, 2008. Members already enrolled in the program will continue to have access 18 months past their enrollment date. Please enter your login and password below. There is a required three month waiting period for participants after the entry of their first chart set to re-measure. To help us establish the normative averages for comparison and compliance, we encourage participants to complete their re-measurement as soon as they are eligible.

The 2009 PAAROT module will be available online in early February. Questions regarding PAAROT should be directed to Kathy Thomas.

The following new features are available upon your login:

  1. Progress Meter – documents each of your steps in the PAAROT Program.
  2. Navigation Bar – ‘Blue’ means the option is active and you are able to move forward with this step. ‘Gray’ means the option is inactive indicating you have completed the step or you have not satisfied the wait time required to move on to the next step. 
  3. Re-measurement – has been added for you to complete your set of 10 Re-measurement surveys, after 10 Baseline surveys have been completed and you have waited 3 months.
  4. Performance Measures – provides you with an overview of your percent to goal on each measure for Baseline and Re-measurement, as well as the national normative average of participating PAAROT members.
  5. Change Analysis – displays your selected measure and the percent (+/-) change after implementing your Practice Improvement Plan.
  6. Reports – review and export:
    • Graphical reports – select the radio button next to the survey and clicking ‘Generate Reports’
    • Survey Archive to view and export each Baseline survey, Re-measurement survey and Improvement Plan.
    • Export to Zip – send a zip file of all reports in Excel to your e-mail anytime, along with a Summary Page when your project is complete.

ASTRO has developed the Performance Assessment for the Advancement of Radiation Oncology Treatment program, which has been approved by the American Board of Radiology as a Type 2 PQI project. PAAROT involves periodic chart review and reporting on measures, which are compared to a database of peer responses, expert consensus and evidence-based guidelines. Based upon this comparison, the physician is asked to select one measure to improve upon and make that the focus of that PQI project. In order to complete the PAAROT program, the radiation oncologist will write a brief description of the change that will be implemented that should result in the alignment of the selected measurement with the national average. After a period of re-measurement, the physician will submit a conclusion as to whether or not the desired change in outcomes resulted.

Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to developing national databases relevant to radiation oncology.