Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer?

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Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer? / Lindqvist, Rikard; Stenbeck, Magnus; Diderichsen, Finn.

I: Health Policy, Bind 72, Nr. 1, 2005, s. 65-71.

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Lindqvist, R, Stenbeck, M & Diderichsen, F 2005, 'Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer?', Health Policy, bind 72, nr. 1, s. 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.06.003

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Lindqvist, R., Stenbeck, M., & Diderichsen, F. (2005). Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer? Health Policy, 72(1), 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.06.003

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Lindqvist R, Stenbeck M, Diderichsen F. Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer? Health Policy. 2005;72(1):65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.06.003

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Lindqvist, Rikard ; Stenbeck, Magnus ; Diderichsen, Finn. / Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer?. I: Health Policy. 2005 ; Bind 72, Nr. 1. s. 65-71.

Bibtex

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title = "Does hospital discharge policy influence sick-leave patterns in the case of female breast cancer?",

abstract = "The objective was to investigate how differences among hospitals in the shift from in-patient care to day surgery and a reduced hospital length of stay affect the sick-leave period for female patients surgically treated for breast cancer. All women aged 18-64 who were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 were selected from the National Cancer Register and combined with data from the sick-leave database of the National Social Insurance Board and the National Hospital Discharge Register (N = 1834). A multi-factorial model was fitted to the data to investigate how differences in hospital care practice affected the length of sick-leave. The main output measure was the number of sick-leave days after discharge during the year following surgery. The confounders used included age, type of primary surgical treatment, whether or not lymph node dissection was performed, labour-market status, county, and readmission. Women treated with breast-conserving surgery had a 54.7-day (-71.9 < or = CI(95%) < or = -37.5) shorter sick-leave period than those with more invasive surgery. The day-surgery cases had 24.3 (-47.5 < or = CI(95%) < or = -1.1) days shorter sick-leave than those who received overnight care. The effect of the hospital median length of stay (LOS) was U-shaped, suggesting that hospitals with a median LOS that is either short or long are associated with longer sick-leave. In the intermediate range, women treated in hospitals with a median LOS of 2 days had 22 days longer sick-leave than those treated in hospitals with a mean LOS of 3 days. This is possibly a sign of sub-optimising.",

author = "Rikard Lindqvist and Magnus Stenbeck and Finn Diderichsen",

note = "Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; Breast Neoplasms; Female; Hospitals, Public; Humans; Length of Stay; Mastectomy; Mastectomy, Segmental; Middle Aged; Organizational Policy; Patient Discharge; Registries; Sick Leave; Sweden",

year = "2005",

doi = "10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.06.003",

language = "English",

volume = "72",

pages = "65--71",

journal = "Health Policy",

issn = "0168-8510",

publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",

number = "1",