Impact of hospital volume on racial disparities and outcomes for endometrial cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Little is known about the influence of hospital procedural volume on racial disparities for uterine cancer. We examined whether the magnitude of the survival differential between black and white women varied based on hospital procedural volume for endometrial cancer.

Methods

We utilized the National Cancer Data Base to examine women with endometrial cancer from 1998 to 2012. Annualized hospital procedural volume was calculated and hospitals grouped into volume-based quartiles. Multivariable models were developed to examine differences in two and five-year survival between black and white women across the hospital volume categories. Patients were classified as early or advanced stage and as type I (low grade, endometrioid) or type II (high grade endometrioid, other

SUBMITTER: Buskwofie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915905 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature