Hospital and geographic variability in thirty-day all-cause mortality following colorectal cancer surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess hospital and geographic variability in 30-day mortality after surgery for CRC and examine the extent to which sociodemographic, area-level, clinical, tumor, treatment, and hospital characteristics were associated with increased likelihood of 30-day mortality in a population-based sample of older CRC patients.

Data sources/study setting

Linked Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) and Medicare data from 47,459 CRC patients aged 66 years or older who underwent surgical resection between 2000 and 2005, resided in 13,182 census tracts, and were treated in 1,447 hospitals.

Study design

An observational study using multilevel logistic regression to identify hospital- and patient-level predictors of and variability in 30-day mortality.

Data coll

SUBMITTER: Schootman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4111769 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature