Hospitalizations and length of stay of cancer patients: A cohort study in the Brazilian Public Health System.

ABSTRACT: The hospitalizations are part of cancer care and has been studied by researchers worldwide. A better understanding about their associated factors may help to achieve improvements on this area. The aims of this study were to investigate the association between demographic and clinical characteristics and hospitalizations, as well as between these characteristics and the length of stay (LOS), within the first year of outpatient treatment, for the most incident cancers in the Brazilian population. In this cohort study, we investigated 417,477 patients aged 19 years or more, who started outpatient cancer treatment, from 2010-2014, for breast, prostate, colorectal, cervix, lung and stomach cancers. The outcomes evaluated were: i) Hospitalizations within the first year of outpatient cancer treat

SUBMITTER: Feliciana Silva F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239479 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature