Pediatric Cancer Hospitalizations, 2009
ResearchPosted on rand.org May 1, 2012Published in: HCUP Statistical Brief, no. 132 (Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, May 2012), 12 p
This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on hospital stays for cancer care in individuals under 18 years of age in 2009. Characteristics of these stays are compared with all non-newborn pediatric stays. Trends in the most common pediatric cancer hospitalizations, as well as cost and length of cancer stays, are displayed. Variations in cost and length of stay are described by cancer site. Finally, principal diagnoses among children with secondary cancer stays are noted. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.
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- Copyright: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 12
- Document Number: EP-51326
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