Breast cancer learning health system: Patient information from a data and analytics platform characterizes care provided.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In a learning health system (LHS), data gathered from clinical practice informs care and scientific investigation. To demonstrate how a novel data and analytics platform can enable an LHS at a regional cancer center by characterizing the care provided to breast cancer patients.

Methods

Socioeconomic information, tumor characteristics, treatments and outcomes were extracted from the platform and combined to characterize the patient population and their clinical course. Oncologists were asked to identify examples where clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) or policy changes had varying impacts on practice. These constructs were evaluated by extracting the corresponding data.

Results

Breast cancer patients (5768) seen at the Juravinski Cancer Centre between January

SUBMITTER: Levine MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11257056 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature