Focus

Availability of data for diagnosis and staging

Use of staging by managing physicians

Use of tests critical for prognosis and clinical management of female breast cancer

Effectiveness of preoperative diagnosis and staging

Comprehensiveness of diagnostic workup

Numerator

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the lung, colon or rectum, or female breast for whom a surgical pathology consultation report is present in the medical record

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the lung, colon or rectum, or female breast with stage of tumor designated by a managing physician

Female patients with Stage I or greater primary breast cancer who, after initial biopsy or resection, have estrogen receptor analysis results in the medical record

Patients with non-small-cell primary lung cancer undergoing thoracotomy with complete surgical resection of tumor

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the colon or rectum whose preoperative evaluation by a managing physician included examination of the entire colon

Denominator

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the lung, colon or rectum, or female breast

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the lung, colon or rectum, or female breast

Female patients with Stage I or higher primary breast cancer undergoing initial biopsy or resection

Patients with non-small-cell primary lung cancer undergoing thoracotomy

Patients undergoing resection for primary cancer of the colon or rectum