Health care use before a diagnosis of primary intracranial tumor: a Danish nationwide register study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Detailed knowledge of prediagnostic health care use among patients with primary intracranial tumors is sparse. We aimed to investigate the health care use among adults during the 2 years preceding a diagnosis of a benign or malignant primary intracranial tumor in Denmark.

Methods

We conducted a population-based matched cohort study using historical data from Danish nationwide registries, including all patients aged 30-90 years diagnosed with a first-time primary intracranial tumor from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2014, and with no prior cancer diagnosis (n=5,926). For each patient, ten comparison subjects were identified using density sampling. We analyzed differences in the frequency and timing of health care use within general practice, physiotherapy, radi

SUBMITTER: Nygaard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6049603 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature