Contacts to general practice in the 12 months preceding a diagnosis of an abdominal cancer: a national register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the number of contacts to general practice across 11 types of abdominal cancer in the 12 months preceding a diagnosis.

Design

Nationwide register study.

Setting

Danish general practice.

Subjects

Forty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight patients diagnosed with oesophageal, gastric, colon, rectal, liver, gall bladder/biliary tract, pancreatic, endometrial, ovarian, kidney or bladder cancer in 2014-2018.

Main outcome measures

Monthly contact rates and incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of daytime face-to-face, email and telephone consultations in general practice across different abdominal cancers. The analyses were conducted for each sex and adjusted for age, comorbidity, marital status and education.

Results

Compared to wo

SUBMITTER: Jessen NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090419 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature