Breast Cancer
Hospital admissions for breast cancer fell by a third between 1997 and 2004
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 13th, 2006
Hospital admissions for breast cancer fell by a third between 1997 and 2004, according to a new report by U.S. Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The decline reflects, in part, the shift to outpatient facilities for breast cancer surgeries, plus the growing use of breast-conserving operations such as lumpectomies, which are typically performed on an outpatient basis.
The hospitalization rate for women with breast cancer dropped from 90 per 100,000 women to slightly fewer than 61 per every 100,000 women during the period, and the number of hospital stays for the disease declined from about 125,000 to 90,000.
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