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. 2012 Oct 12;7:168. doi: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-168

Table 2.

Healthcare resource utilization (Main Analysis)

Patients
Breast cancer
Prostate cancer
  n=207 n=213
Visits
Visits by REOC*
  Mean (SD) number of visits
13 (5.8)
13 (5.8)
  Median number of visits
13
14
  % visits with radiation
72.9
71.7
Procedures
Bone sites radiated by REOC
  Patient count
207
213
  Total
4607
4739
  Mean (SD)
20.9 (12)
20.3 (12)
  Median (range)
19 (1–49)
17 (1–58)
Radiation-related procedures†
  Patient count
203
212
  Total procedures
1843
1984
  Mean (SD) procedures
8.4 (3)
8.5 (4)
  Median (range) procedures
8 (1–23)
8 (1–32)
Radiation+radiation-related procedures
  Patient count
207
213
  Total procedures
6450
6723
  Mean (SD) procedures
29.3 (13)
28.9 (13)
  Median (range) procedures 28 (1–66) 26 (1–76)

* A visit was a unique treatment or consultation. A patient could have multiple visits in a day.

Total resources used from the time of initial bone treatment through the end of the study period.

† Radiation treatment included the actual delivery of radiotherapy, as well as the most commonly observed, associated procedures on the same visit, patient record: medical radiation physics consultation, computed tomography guidance for placement, and radiation calculations. Radiation-related procedures were all other procedures including: treatment devices, design and construction, complex (CPT/HCPCS code 77334); therapeutic radiology simulation-aided field setting, 3-dimensional (CPT/HCPCS code 77295); therapeutic radiology simulation-aided field setting, simple (CPT/HCPCS code 77280); and special dosimetry, when prescribed by the treating physician (CPT/HCPCS code 77331).