Influence of patient, physician, and hospital characteristics on the receipt of guideline-concordant care for inflammatory breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer for which treatments vary, so we sought to identify factors that affect the receipt of guideline-concordant care.

Methods

Patients diagnosed with IBC in 2004 were identified from the Breast and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care Study, containing information from cancer registries in seven states. Variation in guideline-concordant care for IBC, based on National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines, was assessed according to patient, physician, and hospital characteristics.

Results

Of the 107 IBC patients in the study without distant metastasis at the time of diagnosis, only 25.8% received treatment concordant with guidelines. Predictors of non-concordance inclu

SUBMITTER: Denu RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4738104 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature