Neighborhood Deprivation, Hospital Quality, and Mortality After Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate if receipt of complex cancer surgery at high-quality hospitals is associated with a reduction in disparities between individuals living in the most and least deprived neighborhoods.

Background

The association between social risk factors and worse surgical outcomes for patients undergoing high-risk cancer operations is well documented. To what extent neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation as an isolated social risk factor known to be associated with worse outcomes can be mitigated by hospital quality is less known.

Methods

Using 100% Medicare fee-for-service claims, we analyzed data on 212,962 Medicare beneficiaries more than age 65 undergoing liver resection, rectal resection, lung resection, esophagectomy, and pancreaticoduodenectomy for cancer

SUBMITTER: Bonner SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974548 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature