ASO Author Reflections: Centralization of High-Risk Cancer Surgery and Implications for Vulnerable Communities.
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Association of Neighborhood Measures of Social Determinants of Health With Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates in the US Midwest.
Importance Despite advances in cancer treatment and cancer-related outcomes, disparities in cancer mortality remain. Lower rates of cancer prevention screening and consequent delays in diagnosis may exacerbate these disparities. Better understanding of the association between area-level social determinants of health and cancer screening may be helpful to increase screening rates. Objective To examine the association between area deprivation, rurality, and screening for breast, cervical, and colo...
Background There were numerous efforts in the United States during the previous decade to concentrate selected surgical procedures in high-volume hospitals. It remains unknown whether referral patterns for high-risk surgery have changed as a result and how operative mortality has been affected. Methods We used national Medicare data to study patients undergoing one of eight different cancer and cardiovascular operations from 1999 through 2008. For each procedure, we examined trends in hospital v...
Purpose The volume-outcomes relationship has led many to advocate centralization of cancer procedures at high volume hospitals (HVH). We hypothesized that in response cancer surgery has become increasingly centralized and that this centralization has resulted in increased travel burden for patients. Patients and Methods Using 1996 to 2006 discharge data from NY, NJ, PA, all patients ≥ 18 years old treated with extirpative surgery for colorectal, esophageal, or pancreatic cancer were examined. Pa...
ContextGiven the strong volume-outcome relationships observed with many surgical procedures, restricting some procedures to hospitals exceeding a minimum volume standard is advocated. However, such regionalization policies might cause unreasonable travel burdens for surgical patients.ObjectiveTo estimate how minimum volume standards for esophagectomy and pancreatic resection would affect how long patients must travel for these procedures.Design, Setting, and PatientsSimulated trial based on Medi...
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