Survival Before and After Direct Surgical Quality Feedback in a Population-Based Lung Cancer Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical resection is the main curative modality for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but variation in the quality of care contributes to suboptimal survival rates. Improving surgical outcomes by eliminating quality deficits is a key strategy for improving population-level lung cancer survival. We evaluated the long-term survival effect of providing direct feedback on institutional performance in a population-based cohort.

Methods

The Mid-South Quality of Surgical Resection cohort includes all NSCLC resections at 11 hospitals in four contiguous Dartmouth Hospital Referral Regions in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. We evaluated resections from 2004 to 2013, before and after onset of a benchmarked performance feedback campaign to surgery and pathology teams

SUBMITTER: Smeltzer MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478525 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature