Study examines cancer-care outcomes among American hospitals
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
Efforts to rank hospitals by long-term survival rates have been hindered by the readily available administrative data derived from Medicare claims, which lacks information about cancer stage. A new study finds that risk-adjusted Medicare claims data -- without information about the cancer stage of individual patients -- may be sufficient to calculate the long-term survival rates at hospitals providing cancer care in the United States.