Cancer Incidence och mortality in a population based investigation in the southern health care region - Cost for health care

SND-ID: ext0119-1.

Is part of collection at SND: Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

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Contact

Håkan Olsson

hakan.olsson@med.lu.se

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Research principal

Lund University - Faculty of Medicine

Description

All individuals diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2007 were identified in the Cancer Register of Southern Sweden, but only individuals who were also identified in the Population Register of Scania were included in this cohort. Age- and gender-matched controls were identified in the Population Register of Scania. The controls were reconciled with the cancer registry in southern Sweden so that they had no prior diagnosis of cancer and with the Population Register of Scania that they were alive at time of diagnosis to the matched case. Also spouses to cancer patients were used as controls.

For each individual, healthcare costs were monitored related to the date of diagnosis. Costs for outpatient care, inpatient care, number of days in hospital and medications were included. Costs were also calculated for the controls.

Other information available about the individuals in the cohort are age, sex, domicile, type of tumor and medication.

Purpose:

To study the health cost per individual in relation to mortality and comorbidity.

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

All individuals in Scania diagnosed with cancer between year 2000-2007, and controls matched by age and sex.

Study design

Case-control study

Sampling procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Time period(s) investigated

2000 – 2007

Number of individuals/objects

235000

Response rate/participation rate

100%

70000 diagnosed with cancer
165000 controls

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Time period(s) for data collection: 2000-01-01 – 2007-12-31
Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts: Medical/Clinical, Registers/Records/Accounts

Language resources

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Skåne

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Faculty of Medicine

Topic and keywords

Research area

Cancer and oncology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Health (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Cancer, Health services, Medicine, Neoplasms, Case-control studies, Sex, Delivery of health care, Age, Health care costs, Scania, Epihealth, Epihealth_skåne

Publications

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Attner B, Lithman T, Noreen D, Olsson H. Low cancer rates among patients with dementia in a population-based register study in Sweden. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2010;30(1):39-42. doi: 10.1159/000315509.
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Sjövall K, Attner B, Lithman T, Noreen D, Olsson H. Prostate Cancer in the Pre and Post Diagnosis Phase – A Population Based Study on Health Care Costs. 2011. Epidemiol S1:001. doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.S1-001
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Sjövall K, Attner B, Lithman T, Noreen D, Gunnars B, Thomé B, Olsson H. Influence on the health of the partner affected by tumor disease in the wife or husband based on a population-based register study of cancer in Sweden. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Oct 1;27(28):4781-6. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.21.6788.

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