Make care count
Onlangs publiceerde het Britisch Journal of Surgery een artikel met data uit de DUCA (maag- en slokdarmkanker): Textbook outcome as a composite measure in oesophagogastric cancer surgery, geschreven door onder andere Linde Busweiler, voormalig arts-onderzoeker DICA.
De Editor in Chief van de British Journal of Surgery legt het artikel uit in een podcast. Hieronder staat een samenvatting (EN); lees het volledige artikel in de British Journal of Surgery.
Background
Quality assurance is acknowledged as a crucial factor in the assessment of oncological surgical care. The aim of this study was to develop a composite measure of multiple outcome parameters defined as ‘textbook outcome’, to assess quality of care for patients undergoing oesophagogastric cancer surgery.
Methods
Patients with oesophagogastric cancer, operated on with the intent of curative resection between 2011 and 2014, were identified from a national database (Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit). Textbook outcome was defined as the percentage of patients who underwent a complete tumour resection with at least 15 lymph nodes in the resected specimen and an uneventful postoperative course, without hospital readmission. Hospital variation in textbook outcome was analysed after adjustment for case-mix factors.
Results
In total, 2748 patients with oesophageal cancer and 1772 with gastric cancer were included in this study. A textbook outcome was achieved in 29·7 per cent of patients with oesophageal cancer and 32·1 per cent of those with gastric cancer. Adjusted textbook outcome rates varied from 8·5 to 52·4 per cent between hospitals. The outcome parameter ‘at least 15 lymph nodes examined’ had the greatest negative impact on a textbook outcome both for patients with oesophageal cancer and for those with gastric cancer.
Conclusion
Most patients did not achieve a textbook outcome and there was wide variation between hospitals.
Lees het volledige artikel in de British Journal of Surgery.
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