Incidence and treatment patterns in hospitalizations for malignant spinal cord compression in the United States, 1998-2006

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 824-831

  Mak, Kimberley S ^a   Lee, Leslie K ^b   Mak, Raymond H ^c   Wang, Shuang ^d   Pile Spellman, John ^b   Abrahm, Janet L ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,e   Balboni, Tracy A ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c HARVARD RADIATION ONCOLOGY PROGRAM   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care costs; Radiotherapy; Spinal cord compression; Spine metastasis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; LUNG CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ODDS RATIOS; PROSTATE CANCERS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS;

COSTS; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY;

DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPINAL CORD CANCER; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957557228     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.03.022     Document Type: Article

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