Longitudinal Follow-up of Medicare Patients after Esophageal Cancer Resection in the STS Database
Blasberg J, Servais E, Thibault D, Jacobs J, Kozower B, David E, Donahue J, Vekstein A, Kang L, Hartwig M, Jones L, Kosinski A, Habib R, Towe C, Seder C. Longitudinal Follow-up of Medicare Patients after Esophageal Cancer Resection in the STS Database. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2024 PMID: 39147116, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2024.07.034.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchIncreased mortality riskLong-term mortalityMedicare patientsMortality riskDays post-surgeryPost-surgeryCox proportional hazards modelsMultivariate Cox proportional hazards modelDown-staged patientsCharacteristics associated with survivalEsophageal cancer resectionPreoperative risk stratificationProportional hazards modelLog-rank testLong-term survivalDeterministic matching algorithmLongitudinal follow-upPatient-specific predictorsShort-term mortalityCumulative incidence curvesDownstaged patientsN downstagingSTS databasePathological TCancer resection