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- Lindqvist, Rikard, et al.
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Do changes in surgical procedures for breast cancer have consequences for hospital mean length of stay? : A study of women operated on for breast cancer in Sweden, 1980-95
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Ingår i: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. - 0266-4623 .- 1471-6348. ; 18:3, s. 566-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Between 1986 and 1996, the overall mean overnight length of stay for all diagnoses in Sweden decreased from 20.8 to 7.1 days. OBJECTIVES: The study describes changes in surgical technique, from mastectomy to breast-conserving surgery, in treatment of female breast cancer and the parallel change in average length of hospital stay, and discusses the possible link between the trends. RESEARCH DESIGN: The study was performed as a descriptive register study on hospital admission data from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register over a 16-year period (1980-95). RESULTS: During the study period, the mean length of stay for surgical curative breast cancer treatment in Sweden decreased by 56%. In 1980, the proportion of women receiving conservative surgery was 7%. At the end of the period, this share had increased to 51%. Breast-conserving surgery had an approximately 30% shorter mean length of stay compared with mastectomy. The gap was remarkably stable during the study period. The shift from mastectomy to breast-conserving surgery had a limited effect on the share of patients that went through lymph node dissection. Neither age nor the number of operations per woman could, to any significant extent, explain the decrease in mean length of stay. Approximately 14% of the overall decline can be attributed to the changes in technique. CONCLUSIONS: Clinical practice style, in this case the surgical technique, has had an effect on length of stay, but the surgical technique can only to some extent explain the trend.
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- Lindqvist, Rikard, et al.
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Hospital stay related to TNM-stage and the surgical procedure in primary breast cancer.
- 2004
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Ingår i: Acta Oncologica. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0284-186X .- 1651-226X. ; 43:6, s. 545-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden from 1980 to 1995 there was an overall decrease of 56% in mean length of stay (MLOS) for surgical curative breast cancer treatment. The objective of this study was to separate the possible impact of tumour size and lymph node dissemination and changes in surgical procedures. All women diagnosed (n=13 290) with breast cancer between 1982 and 1995 were selected from the Southern Swedish Tumour Register. Data on LOS, diagnoses, and surgical procedures were obtained from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register. A multi-factorial model was fitted to the data. Discharges where patients were treated with breast conserving surgery had more than two days shorter MLOS (-2.49, 95% CI -1.66) compared with mastectomy. Although TNM data imply a shift from T2 to smaller T1 among operated women the effect on MLOS is negligible when controlled for age, type of operation etc. Changes in clinical practice such as changes in operation technique can explain approximately 13% of the total decrease in MLOS.
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- Rosén, Måns, et al.
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Revise the review process of the Cochrane collaboration.
- 2002
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 30:3, s. 238-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Presents a revision of the Cochrane review of screening for breast cancer with mammography. Analysis of equivalent interventions; Grading procedure of the quality in the trials; Evidence for unreliable outcome measures; Costs of mammography screening.
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