Table 5.

Lymph Node Documentation and Retrieval

Measure	Total Population of Patients (N = 499)					Final Study Sample (n = 61)
	Medical Records With Documentation		No. of Lymph Nodes Retrieved			Medical Records With Documentation		No. of Lymph Nodes Retrieved
	No.	%	Median	Minimum	Maximum	No.	%	Median	Minimum	Maximum
Lymph nodes removed	161	32	13	0	52	25	41	17	0	36
Lymph nodes examined*	290	58	13	0	161	59	92	17	0	161
Lymph nodes involved	298	60	3	0	50	59	92	2	0	19

^*Documentation of lymph nodes examined in the critical measure used to calculate the CRC1 quality metric.