Trends in management of pelvic organ prolapse among female Medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In the last decade, many new surgical treatments have been developed to achieve less-invasive approaches to prolapse management. However, limited data exist on how the patterns of care for women with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) may have changed over the last decade, and whether mesh implantation techniques have influenced the type of specific compartment repair performed. We used a national data set to analyze the temporal trends in patterns of care for women with POP.

Study design

Data were obtained from Public Use Files from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a 5% random sample of national beneficiaries with an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis of POP from 1999 through 2009. Current Procedura

SUBMITTER: Khan AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5085801 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature