Original articleGeneral thoracicPatterns of Surgical Care of Lung Cancer Patients
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Material and Methods
A total of 729 hospitals participated in the PCE study of NSCLC patients, diagnosed between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2001. All geographic regions were included. As fully defined elsewhere [2], there were four cancer program categories: community cancer centers, comprehensive community cancer centers, teaching-research facilities, and other. A total of 40,909 cases met the inclusion criteria of microscopically confirmed primary NSCLC, classified topographically as C34.0, C34.1, C34.2,
Results
The survey identified a total of 40,090 patients who met inclusion criteria. The analysis of the entire PCE population is currently under review [9]. This manuscript addresses the 11,668 patients (29.1% of the total) whose initial management included surgical therapy. There were 279 hospitals classified as community cancer centers with 2,609 (22.4%) patients; 266 were comprehensive community cancer centers with 5,359 (46.0%) patients and 141 were teaching/research hospitals with 3,649 (31.3%)
Comment
The CCACS PCE process that sponsored this study was not hypothesis driven. The PCE is designed to determine simply what is being done in hospitals. There is no access to physician information and these data represent only a single year in time and thus do not permit long-term follow-up analysis. However, as with previous PCEs, there is utility to identifying patterns of patients, their disease, and hospital care. First is simply tracking this information to identify and allow reaction to
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