Compliance with Cancer Quality Measures Over Time and Their Association with Survival Outcomes: The Commission on Cancer’s Experience with the Quality Measure Requiring at Least 12 Regional Lymph Nodes to be Removed and Analyzed with Colon Cancer Resections

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 1613-1621

  Shulman, Lawrence N ^a,b   Browner, Amanda E ^b   Palis, Bryan E ^b   Mallin, Katherine ^b   Kakade, Sumedh ^a   Carp, Ned ^b,c   McCabe, Ryan ^b   Winchester, David ^b   Wong, Sandra L ^b,d   McKellar, Daniel P ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^c LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85064256506     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-019-07323-w     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. American College on Surgeons. Commission on cancer quality programs. https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer. Accessed 16 Jan 2018.
2. Jacobson JO, Neuss MN, McNiff KK, Kadlubek P, Thacker LR 2nd, Song F, Eisenberg PD, Simone JV. Improvement in oncology practice performance through voluntary participation in the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative. J Clin Oncol. 2008;26(11):1893-98.
3. Berger AC, Sigurdson ER, LeVoyer T, Hanlon A, Mayer RJ, Macdonald JS, et al. Colon cancer survival is associated with decreasing ratio of metastatic to examined lymph nodes. J Clin Oncol. 2005;23(34):8706-12.
4. Chen SL, Bilchik AJ. More extensive nodal dissection improves survival for stages I to III of colon cancer: a population-based study. Ann Surg. 2006;244(4):602-10.
5. Goldstein NS. Lymph node recoveries from 2427 pT3 colorectal resection specimens spanning 45 years: recommendations for a minimum number of recovered lymph nodes based on predictive probabilities. Am J Surg Pathol. 2002;26(2):179-89.
6. Johnson PM, Porter GA, Ricciardi R, Baxter NN. Increasing negative lymph node count is independently associated with improved long-term survival in stage IIIB and IIIC colon cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24(22):3570-5.
7. Le Voyer TE, Sigurdson ER, Hanlon AL, Mayer RJ, Macdonald JS, Catalano PJ, et al. Colon cancer survival is associated with increasing number of lymph nodes analyzed: a secondary survey of intergroup trial INT-0089. J Clin Oncol. 2003;21(15):2912-9.
8. Chang GJ, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Skibber JM, Moyer VA. Lymph node evaluation and survival after curative resection of colon cancer: systematic review. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99(6):433-41.
9. Fleming ID, Cooper JS, Henson DE, et al. (eds). AJCC cancer staging manual. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Raven; 2001. p. 113-23.
10. Parsons HM, Begun JW, Kuntz KM, Tuttle TM, McGovern PM, Virnig BA. Lymph node evaluation for colon cancer in an era of quality guidelines: who improves? J Oncol Pract. 2013;9(4):e164-71.
11. Swanson RS, Compton CC, Stewart AK, Bland KI. The prognosis of T3N0 colon cancer is dependent on the number of lymph nodes examined. Ann Surg Oncol. 2003;10(1):65-71.
12. Bilimoria KY, Bentrem DJ, Stewart AK, Talamonti MS, Winchester DP, Russell TR, et al. Lymph node evaluation as a colon cancer quality measure: a national hospital report card. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008;100(18):1310-17.
13. Deyo RA, Cherkin DC, Ciol MA. Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases. J Clin Epidemiol. 1992;45(6):613-19.
14. US Department of Agriculture. Economic research service: 2013 rural-urban continuum codes. Washington: Economic Research Service US Department of Agriculture; 2013.
15. Shulman LN, Palis BE, McCabe R, Mallin K, Loomis A, Winchester D, et al. Survival as a quality metric of cancer care: Use of the National Cancer Data Base to assess hospital performance. J Oncol Pract. 2018;14(1):e59-72.
16. Pfister DG, Rubin DM, Elkin EB, Neill US, Duck E, Radzyner M, et al. Risk adjusting survival outcomes in hospitals that treat patients with cancer without information on cancer stage. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(9):1303-10.