Abstract
The public reporting of cancer outcomes, especially stage-specific survival from individual practitioners and institutions, is an inevitable strategy that might be used to reduce variation in cancer care and provide data for cost reduction and physician and hospital reimbursement. Examples of public reporting for some cancer-related information already exist. Although survival data has had limited public reporting, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons has developed an organizational strategy for reporting lung cancer outcomes from its membership. While the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer is positioning its accredited institutions for effective public reporting, the barriers to understanding and interpreting the reported information must be alleviated. Interpretation of incorrect data and absence of appropriate risk adjustment and comorbidity information would skew any meaningful analysis of publically reported data.
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Greene, F.L. (2018). Public Reporting of Institution and Provider-Level Outcomes. In: Hopewood, P., Milroy, M. (eds) Quality Cancer Care . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78649-0_2
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