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  • Urology
  • Health Services Research
  • Medical Informatics

Background:

  • Hospital rankings provide quality metrics for urology procedures.
  • Current rankings may not accurately reflect the full scope of radical prostatectomies performed.
  • Conflicting signals from rankings hinder targeted quality improvement efforts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a clinically coherent definition for radical prostatectomy cases.
  • To assess the overlap between an institutional cohort and US News & World Report (USNWR) prostate cancer surgery cohorts.
  • To improve benchmarking for hospital quality in prostatectomy care.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study analyzed all radical prostatectomies in a large integrated health system in 2024.
  • An institutional definition included inpatient and outpatient procedures using ICD-10 and CPT codes.
  • Reconstructed USNWR prostate cancer surgery cohorts (outpatient volume, complications, inpatient measures) for comparison.

Main Results:

  • Only 45% of radical prostatectomies were captured by any USNWR definition.
  • The USNWR potentially preventable outpatient complications definition captured 39% of cases.
  • The USNWR inpatient outcomes definition captured only 6.1% of cases.

Conclusions:

  • USNWR prostatectomy cohorts significantly underrepresent clinically relevant cases.
  • More inclusive and clinically coherent definitions are necessary for reliable hospital performance benchmarking.
  • An institutional cohort definition offers a more comprehensive approach to quality assessment in radical prostatectomy.