High Social Vulnerability and “Textbook Outcomes” after Cancer Operation

In Brief BACKGROUND: The effect of community-level factors on surgical outcomes has not been well examined. We sought to characterize differences in “textbook outcomes” (TO) relative to social vulnerability among Medicare beneficiaries who underwent operations for cancer. METHODS: Individuals who underwent operations for lung, esophageal, colon, or rectal cancer between 2013 and 2017 were identified using the Medicare database, which was merged...