Table 5.

Quality of surgery and of the pathological report after surgery.

Quality of surgery and of the pathological report after surgery
Country	Indicator 6% of complete tumor resection			Indicator 11% of pathology reports with all core data
	N treated with surgery with curative intent	% of R0	M%	N surgically treated	% of post-surgery pathological report with all core data	M%
Ireland	602	56	27	NA	NA
Italy	516	62	13	474	24	2
Netherlands	2,728	74	13	128**	16**	0
Slovenia	88	75	9	87	1	29

Indicator 6: Number (N) of head and neck patients treated with surgery with curative intent^*, percentage (%) of head and neck patients treated with surgery with negative resection margins (R0) and percentage (%) of missing (M) information for this indicator. Indicator 11: Number (N) of head and neck patients treated with surgery (excluding cryotherapy photodynamic therapy or electrocautery procedure, cryosurgery or laser therapy or thermo-ablation), percentage (%) of pathological report after surgery with all the information available and percentage (%) of missing (M) information for this indicator. ^*Surgery with curative intent: surgery alone or surgery + adjuvant treatment.

NA, not available.

^**Evaluated on a sample of 200 randomly selected case.