Deutsche Krebsregister e.V. (DKR e.V.)

About the DKR

Deutsche Krebsregister e.V. (DKR e.V.) is a registered association with its head office in Lübeck. It consolidates data and findings on the quality of oncological care from the German state cancer registries and presents them in a national context. Its core offering is the CancerQualityHub, which the DKR organizes annually together with the Platform § 65c: a quality conference featuring benchmarking of care quality between care providers and between federal states. In addition, the association publishes evaluations and atlases, including the interactive DKR State Atlas, the DKR District Atlas and the DKR Survival Atlas, as well as the report series Cancer in Germany. The DKR is aimed at professional audiences from the healthcare sector and cancer epidemiology. The website is available in German and English.

Site

Lübeck

Processes

Consolidation and benchmarking of data on the quality of oncological care from German state cancer, Publications and atlases (State Atlas, District Atlas, Survival Atlas), Organization of the CancerQualityHub (quality conferences)

Certificates

ISO 9001

Industries

Healthcare / Cancer Epidemiology

1. 01

   Consolidation of data from the state cancer registries

2. 02

   Evaluation and benchmarking of care quality

3. 03

   Publication (atlases, reports, studies)

4. 04

   CancerQualityHub event

Location

Evaluations and Atlases

Data Quality

The registry data are based on the mandatory reporting obligations of the state cancer registries; the analyses use standardized indicators and methods for data quality verification.