Use of health services among long-term breast cancer survivors in Spain: longitudinal study based on real-world data

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate health service utilization in Spain among long-term breast cancer survivors and to compare it with that among women with no history of breast cancer. Methods Study based on the SURBCAN cohort includes a sample of long-term breast cancer survivors and a sample of women without breast cancer from 5 Spanish regions. Healthcare utilization was assessed through primary care, hospital visits, and tests during the follow-up period (2012 to 2016) by using electronic health records. Annual contact rates to healthcare services were calculated, and crude and multivariate count models were fitted to estimate the adjusted relative risk of healthcare services use. Results Data were obtained from 19,328 women, including 6512 long-term breast cancer survivors. Healthcare use was higher among breast cancer survivors (20.9 vs 16.6; p < 0.0001) and decreased from >10 years of survival. Breast cancer survivors who underwent a mastectomy were more likely to have a primary care visit (RR = 3.10 95% CI 3.08–3.11). Five to ten years survivors were more likely to have hospital inpatient visits and imaging test compared to women without breast cancer (RRa = 1.35 95% CI 1.30–1.39 and RRa = 1.27 95% CI 1.25–1.29 respectively). Conclusion This study shows higher use of health services in long-term breast cancer survivors than in women without breast cancer regardless of survival time. Implications for Cancer Survivors These results help to estimate the health resources needed for the growing group of breast cancer survivors and to identify risk factors that drive higher use of health services..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Journal of cancer survivorship - 16(2021), 1 vom: 23. März, Seite 132-141

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jansana, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Domingo, Laia [VerfasserIn]
Ibañez, Berta [VerfasserIn]
Prados, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Del Cura, Isabel [VerfasserIn]
Padilla-Ruiz, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Sanz, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Poblador, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
Tamayo, Ibai [VerfasserIn]
Gimeno, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Alberquilla, Angel [VerfasserIn]
Abizanda, Mercè [VerfasserIn]
Comas, Mercè [VerfasserIn]
Lanzuela, Manuela [VerfasserIn]
Burgui, Rossana [VerfasserIn]
Holgado, Antonio Diaz [VerfasserIn]
Duarte-Salles, Talita [VerfasserIn]
Moreno, Conchi [VerfasserIn]
Louro, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Baquedano, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Molina, Cristobal [VerfasserIn]
del Carmen Martinez, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Gorricho, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Redondo, Maximino [VerfasserIn]
Castells, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Sala, Maria [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Breast cancer
Cancer survivors
Health services research
Primary care
Real-world data
Survival care

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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021

doi:

10.1007/s11764-021-01011-z

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OLC2078141895