Emergency Department Visits Before Cancer Diagnosis Among Women at Mayo Clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine associations of incident cancer diagnoses in women with recent emergency department (ED) care.

Patients and methods

A retrospective cohort study analyzing biological females aged 18 years and older, who were diagnosed with an incident primary cancer (12 cancer types studied) from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2021, from electronic health records. The primary outcome was a cancer diagnosis within 6 months of a preceding ED visit. Secondary outcomes included patient factors associated with a preceding ED visit.

Results

Of 25,736 patients (median age of 62 years, range 18-101) diagnosed with an incident primary cancer, 1938 (7.5%) had an ED visit ≤6 months before a diagnosis. The ED-associated cancer cases were highest in lung cancer (n=514, 14.

SUBMITTER: Stauder SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11002794 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature