Erschienen in:
16.08.2019 | Hepatobiliary Tumors
Using Center-Specific Medicare Data to Compare Cancer Care Outcomes: Are We Seeing the Whole Playing Field or Just a Blade of Grass
verfasst von:
Thomas A. Aloia, MD, MHCM, FACS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 12/2019
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Annals of Surgical Oncology, the Ohio State University outcomes research group has published “The Impact of Dedicated Cancer Centers on Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Liver and Pancreatic Cancer Surgery.”
1 The report describes a rigorous statistical methodology demonstrating that hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgical outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries who underwent surgery between 2013 and 2015 at Prospective Payment System (PPS)-exempt cancer centers experienced fewer short-term postoperative complications than those who had surgery at non-PPS exempt hospitals. …