Benchmarking rectal cancer care: institutional compliance with a longitudinal checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2012, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons published the Rectal Cancer Surgery Checklist, a consensus document listing 25 essential elements of care for all patients undergoing radical surgery for rectal cancer. The authors herein examine checklist adherence in a mature, multisurgeon specialty academic practice.

Materials and methods

A retrospective medical record review of patients undergoing elective radical resection for rectal adenocarcinoma over a 23-mo period was conducted. Checklists were completed post hoc for each patient, and these results were tabulated to determine levels of compliance. Subgroup analyses by compliance and experience levels of the treating surgeon were performed.

Results

A total of 161 patients underwent resection

SUBMITTER: Chapman WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881924 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature