Textbook Outcome After Oral Cancer Surgery as a Composite Measure for Survival and Quality-of-Care Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To enhance survival outcomes for oral cavity cancer (OCC) surgery, a composite measure has been developed: "textbook outcome" (TO). Three studies have reported on this concept in OCC, but the need for population-level results remains. This study investigates OCC surgery, focusing on survival and hospital-level results.

Study design

Cohort study.

Setting

National multicenter study.

Methods

All first primary OCC patients who underwent curative tumor resection between 2018 and 2021 were selected from the Dutch Head and Neck Audit database. Resections were categorized as local or extensive, the latter including neck dissection and/or free or pedicled flap reconstruction. TO was defined as the absence of 30-day mortality, hospital readmission, prolonged le

SUBMITTER: van Oorschot HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12574621 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature