Case Study
Determine the economic ramifications of delayed tumor progression via a retrospective database analysis
Objectives: to understand the economic ramifications of delayed tumor progression
Research
- Patients were identified via a tumor registry and linked to all other information (demographics, inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy)
Analyze
- Descriptive Statistics
- Age, race
- Time to follow up
- Death
- Baseline stage, grade, node
- Baseline labs
- Scans
- Initial treatment and other treatments
- Progression status
- PSA descriptives
- Analysis of Progression as an outcome
- Odds of progression
- Time to progression
- Analysis of Cost as an Outcome
- Total cost by progression status
- Total cost per year by progression status
- Effect of progression on cost
- Cost pre and post progression
- Cost categorization analysis
Communicate
- Results were presented at:
- ASCO
- AUA (epi/cost)
- Journal of Urology Vol. 171, 2250–2254, June 2004
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