36% Drop In Hospitalization Rates For Cervical Cancer Cases, 1994 - 2004, USA

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine
Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology;  Women's Health / Gynecology
Article Date: 05 Jan 2007 - 0:00 PDT

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Hospitalization rates for cervical cancer cases declined 36 percent between 1994 and 2004 - from 25.9 to 16.6 admissions per every 100,000 women, according to the latest News and Numbers issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The number of admissions per year fell from 34,600 to 24,800 during the period.

The study found that in 2004:

-- Cervical cancer hospitalizations were over 40 percent higher in the South than in the West (19.0 versus 13.2 admissions per 100,000).

-- Women ages 18 to 44 accounted for half of all hospitalizations for cervical cancer and women ages 45 to 64 accounted for 37 percent.

-- Hysterectomy was performed in 60 percent of all hospital stays for cervical cancer. Women in the West were nearly 40 percent more likely to have a hysterectomy than women in the Northeast

-- Private insurers were billed for half of the hospital stays for cervical cancer, Medicaid was billed for 28 percent, Medicare got the bill for 11 percent of the stays, and 7 percent of were uninsured.

This News and Numbers is based on data in Hospital Stays for Cervical Cancer, 2004, HCUP Statistical Brief # 22. The report uses statistics from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a database of hospital inpatient stays that is nationally representative of all short-term, non-federal hospitals. The data are drawn from hospitals that comprise 90 percent of all discharges in the United States and include all patients, regardless of insurance type as well as the uninsured.

http://www.ahrq.gov

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