The Development and Validation of Prostate Cancer-specific Physician-Hospital Networks.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop prostate cancer-specific physician-hospital networks to define hospital-based units that more accurately group hospitals, providers, and the patients they serve.

Methods

Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare, we identified men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer between 2007 and 2011. We created physician-hospital networks by assigning each patient to a physician and each physician to a hospital based on treatment patterns. We assessed content validity by examining characteristics of hospitals anchoring the physician-hospital networks and of the patients associated with these hospitals.

Results

We identified 42,963 patients associated with 344 physician-hospital networks. Networks anchored by a teaching hospital (compared

SUBMITTER: Jacobs BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141943 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature