Statewide Longitudinal Hospital Use and Charges for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated longitudinal hospitalization outcomes (total charges, hospital days and admissions) among pediatric and adolescent patients with cancer compared with individuals from the general population without cancer using a novel and efficient three-step regression procedure.

Methods

The statewide Utah Population Database, with linkages to the Utah Cancer Registry, was used to identify 1,651 patients who were diagnosed with cancer from 1996 to 2009 at ages 0 to 21 years. A comparison group of 4,953 same-sex and -age individuals was generated from birth certificates. Claims-based hospitalization data from 1996 to 2012 were retrieved from the Utah Department of Health. Using the regression method, we estimated survival (differences due to survival) and intensity (

SUBMITTER: Kaul S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507394 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature