Hospital Admissions Associated With Cancer Pain in Older Adults With and Without Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neoplasm-related pain is often suboptimally treated, contributing to avoidable suffering and increased medical resource use and costs. We hypothesized that dementia may contribute to increased resource use and costs in patients hospitalized for neoplasm-related pain in the United States.

Aims

To examine how persons with cancer and dementia use medical resources and expenditures in US hospitals compared to ondividuals without dementia.

Design

This study examined a retrospective cohort.

Setting

Admissions to US hospitals for neoplasm-related pain from 2012-2016 PARTICIPANTS/SUBJECTS: METHODS: Data were obtained from the 2012-2016 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). The sample included hospital admissions of individuals aged 60 or older with a primary diag

SUBMITTER: Strassels SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9128229 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature