Profiling hospitals by survival of patients with colorectal cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To profile hospitals by survival rates of colorectal cancer patients in multiple periods after initial treatment.

Data sources

California Cancer Registry data from 50,544 patients receiving primary surgery with curative intent for stage I-III colorectal cancer in 1994-1998, supplemented with hospital discharge abstracts.

Study design

We estimated a single Bayesian hierarchical model to quantify associations of survival to 30 days, 30 days to 1 year, and 1-5 years by hospital, adjusted for patient age, sex, race, stage, tumor site, and comorbidities. We compared two profiling methods for 30-day survival and four longer-term profiling methods by the fractions of hospitals with demonstrably superior survival profiles and of hospital pairs whose relative standin

SUBMITTER: Zheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3087866 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature