The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Rectal Cancer Project: Protocol for a Pan-Canadian, Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative to Optimize the Quality of Rectal Cancer Care

Amandeep Pooni   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Selina Schmocker   ² , MSc ;   Carl Brown   ⁴ , MSc, MD ;   Anthony MacLean   ⁵ , MD ;   Lara Williams   ⁶ , MD ;   Nancy N Baxter   ^{3, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Marko Simunovic   ⁸ , MPH, MD ;   Alexander Sender Liberman   ⁹ , MD ;   Sebastien Drolet   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Katerina Neumann   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Kartik Jhaveri   ^{3, 12} , MD ;   Richard Kirsch   ^{3, 13} , MD, PhD ;   Erin Diane Kennedy   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA

² Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA

³ Division of Occupational Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA

⁴ Department of Surgery, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, CA

⁵ Department of Surgery, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA

⁶ Department of Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, CA

⁷ Department of Surgery and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA

⁸ Department of Surgery, McMaster Universtiy, Hamilton, ON, CA

⁹ Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CA

¹⁰ Department of Surgery, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, CA

¹¹ Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Victoria General Site, Halifax, NS, CA

¹² Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA

¹³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA