Measuring Surgical Waiting Times in Breast Cancer: Admission to Surgery Versus Biopsy Result to Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Background: Preoperative timelines may lengthen due to tailored evaluation and system constraints. We examined whether two complementary measures of time-to-surgery (TTS)-admission-to-surgery (A-TTS) and biopsy-result-to-surgery (B-TTS)-behave similarly and whether parallel tracking offers service value. Methods: In a single-center retrospective cohort of eligible women undergoing upfront surgery for invasive breast cancer (2010-2021; n = 167), we reported quality indicators for timeliness (target attainment, agreement and discordance, the interval gap, and the surgery-to-adjuvant interval), while analyzing recurrence as the primary endpoint and overall survival as secondary. Discrimination analyses, logistic regression, and Cox models were used; non-proportional hazar

SUBMITTER: Tandogan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12692320 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature