ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2024
Quality of breast surgery care at a comprehensive cancer center and its rural affiliate hospital.
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- Patient Preferences for Cancer Care Within Hub-and-Spoke Networks: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2026Article
- Healthcare facility volume and evidence-based practice implementation in surgical care of patients with common cancers.American journal of surgery · 2026Article
- Patient preferences for location of cancer surgery in a community cancer affiliate network.Surgery · 2025Article
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backgroundCancer centers are increasingly affiliating with rural hospitals to perform surgery. Perioperative and oncologic outcomes for cancer center surgeons operating at rural hospitals are understudied.
methodsFor patients with non-metastatic breast cancer from a rural catchment area who had oncologic surgery at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center (CC) or its rural affiliate (RA) from 2017 to 2022, we compared perioperative outcomes (composite of surgical site infection, seroma requiring drainage, and reoperation for margins) and receipt of guideline-concordant care (if patient received all applicable treatments) using descriptive statistics and chi-squared tests.
resultsAmong 168 patients, 99 had surgery at RA, 60 CC. RA patients were older, higher stage, and more often had lumpectomy. There were no differences in perioperative outcomes (CC 10%, RA 14%, p = 0.445) or guideline concordant care (RA 76%, CC 78%, p = 0.846).
conclusionsCancer center surgeons operating at a rural affiliate had comparable perioperative outcomes and guideline-concordant care.
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