National Trends and Factors Associated with Hospital Costs Following Thyroid Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical costs in the United States have been increasing disproportionally to gross domestic product, raising concerns about the sustainability of U.S. healthcare expenditures. Care of patients with thyroid disease has been identified as an area of medicine where cost increases have been pronounced.

Objectives

The goals of this study were to identify potential drivers of the cost of hospitalization following thyroid surgery, and to understand which of these factors may be contributing to observed increases in cost from 2003 to 2011.

Methods

A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of discharge data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database for all admissions following thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy in the years 2003, 2007, and 2011 was pe

SUBMITTER: Biron VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507087 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature