Hospital Quality and Racial Differences in Outcomes After Genitourinary Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and objectives

Prior work has demonstrated racial disparities in surgical outcomes for solid organ cancers. We sought to assess the relationship between hospital quality and racial disparities in achievement of textbook outcomes among patients undergoing surgery for prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer.

Methods

We used 100% national Medicare Provider Analysis and Review files from 2017 to 2020 to assess textbook outcomes in Patients undergoing bladder (i.e., radical cystectomy), kidney (i.e., radical or partial nephrectomy), and prostate (i.e., radical prostatectomy) surgery for genitourinary malignancies. Our exposure was hospital-level quality, assessed by the predicted to expected ratio of achievement of textbook outcomes, agnostic to social and economic dete

SUBMITTER: Dall CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11612663 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature