Surgeon-Level Variation in Utilization of Local Staging and Neoadjuvant Therapy for Stage II-III Rectal Adenocarcinoma.
Douglas S SwordsDavid E SkardaWilliam T SauseUte GawlickGeorge M CannonMark A LewisCourtney L ScaifeJesse A GygiH Tae KimPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)
NT omission should be understood as a consequence of surgeon failure to perform local staging in most cases. Quality improvement efforts should focus on improving utilization of local staging.