Case-mix-adjusted benchmarking of long-term breast cancer–specific mortality: Insights from a nationwide Swedish registry
Jacob Thurell, Iurii Petrov, Peter Lindgren, Jonas Bergh, Irma Fredriksson, Narsis A. Kiani, Elham Hedayati · 2026
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Jacob Thurell and colleagues tested fair ways to compare long term breast cancer deaths across hospitals in a 2026 Swedish registry study. Hospitals serve different mixes of patients, so raw death rates can mislead. Adjustment for case mix is common for short term outcomes but less settled over ten years.
Using a national registry covering 10,888 patients, they built two models for death from breast cancer within ten years. A full model used age, tumor, social, and health data, while a reduced model used only age and tumor data. Both models sorted risk well and gave near alike expected death rates across twelve hospitals. Age, stage, and grade predicted most strongly. The authors say routine data alone can support fair benchmarking.
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| CREATOR | Jacob Thurell, Iurii Petrov, Peter Lindgren, Jonas Bergh, Irma Fredriksson, Narsis A. Kiani, Elham Hedayati |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |