Early Stage Bladder Cancer: Do Pathology Reports Tell Us What We Need to Know?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess a large national sample of bladder cancer pathology reports to determine if they contained the components necessary for clinical decision-making.

Methods

We examined a random sample of 507 bladder cancer pathology reports from the national Department of Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse to assess whether each included information on the 4 report components explicitly recommended by the College of American Pathologists' protocol for the examination of such specimens: histology, grade, presence vs absence of muscularis propria in the specimen, and microscopic extent. We then assessed variation in the proportion of reports lacking at least 1 component across Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

Results

One hundred eight of 507 reports (2

SUBMITTER: Schroeck FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5116267 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature