Cost of Tobacco-related Cancer Hospitalizations in the U.S., 2014
| Autor: | S. Jane Henley, Eric Tai, C. Brooke Steele, Michael Shayne Gallaway, Gery P. Guy, Lisa C. Richardson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Rectum Oral cavity Article Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cost of Illness Neoplasms Internal medicine Prevalence Tobacco Smoking medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Hospital Costs Young adult Esophagus Cervix Aged Inpatient care business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cancer Middle Aged medicine.disease United States Hospitalization medicine.anatomical_structure 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female business Medical costs |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 54:591-595 |
| ISSN: | 0749-3797 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.12.004 |
| Popis: | Introduction Smoking has been causally linked to 12 tobacco-related cancers: oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, liver, pancreas, larynx, lung, cervix, bladder, kidney, and acute myeloid leukemia. Tobacco-related cancers−related morbidity and mortality have been well described, but little is known about the prevalence of tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations and associated costs. This study estimates the annual number of tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations and their associated direct medical costs in the U.S. Methods This study examined data from the 2014 National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient care database in the U.S. The authors calculated number of hospitalizations, total costs, length of stay, and cost per stay for tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations and cancer hospitalizations not related to tobacco. Results In 2014, there were an estimated 461,295 annual tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations at a cost of $8.2 billion in the U.S. Tobacco-related cancers accounted for 45% of total cancer hospitalizations and cancer hospitalization costs. Compared with cancer hospitalizations not related to tobacco, tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations had a longer mean length of stay (6.8 vs 5.7 days). Conclusions The burden of tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations is substantial in the U.S. These findings highlight the importance of tobacco prevention and cessation efforts to decrease the burden of tobacco-related cancers in the U.S. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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