Anne M Walling, Karl A Lorenz, Anita Yuan, Claire E O'Hanlon, Michael McClean, Benjamin Fayyazuddin Ljungberg, Karleen F Giannitrapani, Selen Bozkurt, Sidharth Anand, John Glaspy, Neil S Wenger, Charlotta Lindvall
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Abstract
Purpose: To test the generalizability of an electronic health record (EHR) phenotype for patients with advanced solid cancer, which was previously developed in a single cancer center.
Methods: We compared an algorithm to identify patients with advanced solid cancer from a random sample of patients with active cancer in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) and an academic cancer center with a human-coded reference standard between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019.
Results: Compared with the human-coded reference standard, the algorithm had high specificity (93%; 95% CI, 87 to 99 and 97%; 95% CI, 93 to 100) and reasonable sensitivity (85%; 95% CI, 76 to 94 and 87%; 95% CI, 77 to 97) in the VA and academic cancer center populations, respectively. Patients with advanced cancer (compared with those with active nonadvanced cancer) had higher mortality at the VA and academic cancer center (29.2% and 17.0% 6-month mortality v 6.8% and 3.5%), respectively.
Conclusion: This EHR phenotype can be used to measure and improve the quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer within and across health care settings.