Assessment of hospital-level adjusted breast cancer sentinel lymph node positivity rates.

Elizabeth R BergerKarl Y BilimoriaChristine V KinnierChristina A MinamiKevin P BethkeNora M HansenRyan P MerkowDavid P WinchesterAnthony D Yang

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2018)

There is a wide variation in hospital SLNB positivity rates. Hospitals with lower- or higher-than-expected SLNB positivity rates were associated with survival differences. Hospital SLNB positivity rates may be a novel 'process measure' to report to hospitals for internal quality assessment.

Keyphrases

healthcare
sentinel lymph node
acute care
adverse drug
early stage
lymph node
emergency department
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy