Short-term outcomes of vaginal mesh placement among female Medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare short-term outcomes between prolapse repairs with and without mesh using a national data set. Mesh use in surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse has gained wide popularity. However, mesh complications have increased concomitantly with its use.

Methods

Public Use File data were obtained for a 5% random national sample of female Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older. Women who underwent prolapse surgery were identified using Current Procedural Terminology Coding System, Fourth Edition (CPT-4) codes. Because the code for mesh placement was effected in 2005, we separated patients into 3 cohorts as follows: those who underwent prolapse repairs from 1999 to 2000 (presumably without mesh), those who underwent repairs from 2007 to 2008 (presumably

SUBMITTER: Anger JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4309266 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature