Factors associated with high-cost hospitalizations in elderly ovarian cancer patients.

CONCLUSION: High-cost ovarian cancer admissions were three times more expensive than low-cost admissions. Fewer open and extended procedures with subsequently shorter lengths of stay may have contributed to decreasing inpatient costs over the study period. In this cohort of patients largely covered by Medicare, clinical factors outweigh socioeconomic factors as cost drivers. Understanding the relationship of disease-specific and social factors to cost will be important in informing future value-based quality improvement efforts in gynecologic cancer care. PMID: 32980126 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Gynecologic Oncology - September 22, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Manrriquez E, Mandelbaum A, Aguayo E, Zakhour M, Karlan B, Benharash P, Cohen JG Tags: Gynecol Oncol Source Type: research