- Title
- Factors associated with quality of care for patients with pancreatic cancer in Australia
- Creator
- Burmeister, Elizabeth A.; O'Connell, Dianne L.; Jordan, Susan J.; Goldstein, David; Merrett, Neil; Wyld, David K.; Beesley, Vanessa L.; Gooden, Helen M.; Janda, Monika; Neale, Rachel E.
- Relation
- NHMRC
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 205, Issue 10, p. 459-465
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00567
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Objectives: To develop a composite score for the quality of care for patients with pancreatic cancer in Australia; to determine whether it was affected by patient and health service-related factors; to assess whether the score and survival were correlated. Design, participants and setting: We reviewed medical records of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during July 2009 - June 2011 and notified to the Queensland and New South Wales cancer registries. Design and main measure outcomes: Participants were allocated proportional quality of care scores based on indicators derived from a Delphi process, ranging from 0 (lowest) to 1 (highest quality care). Associations between patient and health service-related factors and the score were tested by linear regression, and associations between the score and survival with Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards methods. Results: Proportional quality of care scores were assigned to 1571 patients. Scores for patients living in rural areas were significantly lower than for those in major cities (adjusted difference, 11%; 95% CI, 8-13%); they were higher for patients in the least socio-economically disadvantaged areas (v most disadvantaged areas: 8% higher; 95% CI, 6-11%), who were younger, had better Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, or who first presented to a hospital with a high pancreatic case volume. Higher scores were associated with improved survival; after adjusting for patient-related factors, each 10 percentage point increase in the score reduced the risk of dying by 6% (hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.91-0.97). Conclusion: Geographic category of residence may influence the quality of care received by patients with pancreatic cancer, and survival could be improved if they received optimal care.
- Subject
- pancreatic cancer; Australia; patient care; quality of care
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328421
- Identifier
- uon:25904
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-5377
- Language
- eng
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