Increasing Rates of Surgery for Patients With Nonmalignant Colorectal Polyps in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Despite the availability of endoscopic therapy, many patients in the United States undergo surgical resection for nonmalignant colorectal polyps. We aimed to quantify and examine trends in the use of surgery for nonmalignant colorectal polyps in a nationally representative sample.

Methods

We analyzed data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample for 2000 through 2014. We included all adult patients who underwent elective colectomy or proctectomy and had a diagnosis of either nonmalignant colorectal polyp or colorectal cancer. We compared trends in surgery for nonmalignant colorectal polyps with surgery for colorectal cancer and calculated age, sex, race, region, and teaching status/bed-size-specific incidence rates of surge

SUBMITTER: Peery AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880740 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature