Table 3.

Timeliness of Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer Care in the Veterans Health Administration

Quality Indicator	Cancer Study Population	Qualified Study Sample (No. of patients)	Days
			Mean	SD	Median	IQR
Days from diagnosis to initiation of initiation of treatment (i.e. surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy)	Stages II and III colorectal cancer	1,729	26.6	38.2	20.0	37
Days from definitive surgical resection to start of adjuvant chemotherapy	Stages II and III colorectal cancer	767	64.9	54.9	50.0	35
Days from definitive surgical resection to surveillance colonoscopy for colonoscopies performed at least 7 months after surgical resection	Stages I, II, and III colorectal cancer with no preoperative obstructing lesion documented	644	444.1	182.1	393.0	166

Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range.