The National Cancer Data Base: Past, Present, and Future
2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1245/s10434-009-0771-3
ISSN1534-4681
AutoresDavid P. Winchester, Andrew K. Stewart, Jerri Linn Phillips, Elizabeth E. Ward,
Tópico(s)Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
ResumoThe National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) contains information on over 25 million cancer patients diagnosed and treated in cancer centers across the USA since 1985.The NCDB collects data on patient demographics, tumor stage and histopathology, treatment, and outcomes on more than 70% of the cancer cases diagnosed in the USA annually.Reporting centers range from small community hospitals to large academic medical centers and National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.Since its inception in 1988 the NCDB has been cofunded by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) and the American Cancer Society (ACS).The programmatic focus of the NCDB, since its founding, has been to support quality improvement at the local level.The NCDB has evolved over time.Its focus has shifted from peer-reviewed observational studies on patterns of cancer care to the development of web-based audit and feedback reporting tools for Commission on Cancer (CoC)accredited cancer programs to promote local quality assessment and improvement initiatives.These tools include descriptive reports that permit extensive user customization and report-card-style reports displaying performance rates for nationally recognized evidencebased quality-of-care measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF).The NCDB remains a widely recognized and valuable resource for a broad range of investigators.Although not population based, the NCDB reflects treatment patterns in a defined universe of CoCaccredited facilities that are required to maintain highquality hospital cancer registries as well as meet other process standards.A number of retrospective studies have
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