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. 2015 Mar 24;46(1):38–47. doi: 10.1007/s00595-015-1146-y

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The National Cancer Database feedback system includes a risk calculator for the mortality and morbidity of preoperative patients (left schema) and performance reports of each participating hospital (right schema). The latter includes each facility’s severity-adjusted clinical performance (benchmark) in comparison with the national data (a) and the risk-adjusted cumulative expected–observed death (b). Better (right) or worse (left) outcomes can be detected by the monitoring report