TABLE II.
Breast cancer cases with at least one home care service, overall and by stage of disease at diagnosis
| Group | Cohort size (n) |
Patients with home care services
|
Services per patient–year (n) | Cost per patient–year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n) | (%) | ||||
| Cases | 39,656 | 29,882 | 75.4a | 14.97a | $1210a |
| Controls | 198,280 | 28,941 | 14.6 | 6.13 | $325 Attributable: $885 |
| Cases | |||||
| Stage i | 8,464 | 62.1 | 8.35 | $679 | |
| Stage ii | 10,797 | 85.7 | 15.94 | $1318 | |
| Stage iii | 4,507 | 94.6 | 25.17 | $2170 | |
| Stage iv | 1,228 | 79.1 | 55.75 | $4546 | |
| Not staged | 4,886 | 68.7 | 15.00 | $1101 | |
a
p < 0.01.