Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark
OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of healthcare prior to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in Denmark. DESIGN: A population-based cohort study using prospectively recorded data from Danish National Health Registries. SETTING: Danish general practice and hospitals. SUBJECTS: A total of 5926 patients diag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35485773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2022.2069730 |
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author | Rasmussen, Linda A. Virgilsen, Line F. Fristrup, Claus W. Vedsted, Peter Jensen, Henry |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of healthcare prior to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in Denmark. DESIGN: A population-based cohort study using prospectively recorded data from Danish National Health Registries. SETTING: Danish general practice and hospitals. SUBJECTS: A total of 5926 patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012–2018 and 59,260 matched references without pancreatic cancer from the Danish general population. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The monthly frequency of healthcare use (contacts and tests in general practice and contacts and diagnostic investigations in hospitals) during the 12 months preceding the pancreatic cancer diagnosis and a corresponding index date assigned to the references. RESULTS: Compared to the references, the patients had increased contacts and diagnostic tests, especially blood glucose testing, in general practice from 7 to 12 months before diagnosis. Hospital contacts and diagnostic imaging increased from 5 months before the diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: KEY POINTS: Pancreatic cancer is a rapidly progressing and highly lethal disease. Focus on early diagnosis is essential to improve the prognosis. Patients with pancreatic cancer had increased number of healthcare contacts from 7 months before the diagnosis. Patients with pancreatic cancer had increased number of blood glucose tests taken throughout almost the entire year before the diagnosis. The results may indicate that a window of opportunity exists to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier. |
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spelling | pubmed-93974602022-08-24 Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark Rasmussen, Linda A. Virgilsen, Line F. Fristrup, Claus W. Vedsted, Peter Jensen, Henry Scand J Prim Health Care Original Articles OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of healthcare prior to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in Denmark. DESIGN: A population-based cohort study using prospectively recorded data from Danish National Health Registries. SETTING: Danish general practice and hospitals. SUBJECTS: A total of 5926 patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012–2018 and 59,260 matched references without pancreatic cancer from the Danish general population. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The monthly frequency of healthcare use (contacts and tests in general practice and contacts and diagnostic investigations in hospitals) during the 12 months preceding the pancreatic cancer diagnosis and a corresponding index date assigned to the references. RESULTS: Compared to the references, the patients had increased contacts and diagnostic tests, especially blood glucose testing, in general practice from 7 to 12 months before diagnosis. Hospital contacts and diagnostic imaging increased from 5 months before the diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: KEY POINTS: Pancreatic cancer is a rapidly progressing and highly lethal disease. Focus on early diagnosis is essential to improve the prognosis. Patients with pancreatic cancer had increased number of healthcare contacts from 7 months before the diagnosis. Patients with pancreatic cancer had increased number of blood glucose tests taken throughout almost the entire year before the diagnosis. The results may indicate that a window of opportunity exists to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier. Taylor & Francis 2022-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9397460/ /pubmed/35485773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2022.2069730 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Rasmussen, Linda A. Virgilsen, Line F. Fristrup, Claus W. Vedsted, Peter Jensen, Henry Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title | Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title_full | Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title_fullStr | Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title_short | Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark |
title_sort | healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in denmark |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35485773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2022.2069730 |
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