Cancer Hospitalizations for Adults, 2009
ResearchPosted on rand.org Feb 1, 2012Published in: HCUP Statistical Brief, no. 125 (Rockville, MD. : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Feb. 2012) 11 p
This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample on hospital stays for cancer care among adults age 18 and older in 2009. Characteristics of these stays are compared by type of cancer and compared with adult hospitalizations for all other conditions. The most common cancer hospitalizations are identified and trends in the number of stays from 2000 to 2009 are displayed. Stays with a secondary diagnosis of cancer are enumerated, and the most frequent principal diagnoses for these stays are noted. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.
Topics
Document Details
- Copyright: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 11
- Document Number: EP-51325
This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations.
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.