Evaluation of Reliability and Correlations of Quality Measures in Cancer Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Measurement of the quality of care is important for alternative payment models in oncology, yet the ability to distinguish high-quality from low-quality care across oncology practices remains uncertain.

Objective

To assess the reliability of cancer care quality measures across oncology practices using registry and claims-based measures of process, utilization, end-of-life (EOL) care, and survival, and to assess the correlations of practice-level performance across measure and cancer types.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program registry linked to Medicare administrative data to identify individuals with lung cancer, breast cancer, or colorectal cancer (CRC) that was ne

SUBMITTER: Keating NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7985722 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature