Table 1.

Medicare inpatient population diagnosed with metastatic disease to the skeleton

Year	Men <65	Women <65	<65 group	Men 65+	Women 65+	65+ group	Total
2005	5762	9206	14,968	64,638	52,846	117,484	132,452
2006	6008	9299	15,307	65,715	53,342	119,057	134,364
2007	6261	9540	15,801	67,650	54,047	121,697	137,498
2008	6103	9388	15,491	62,618	50,465	113,083	128,574
2009	6824	10,302	17,126	67,512	53,843	121,355	138,481
2010	7208	10,952	18,160	68,933	55,123	124,056	142,216
2011	7931	11,776	19,707	72,878	56,741	129,619	149,326
2012	8195	12,410	20,605	76,251	58,963	135,214	155,819
r2	0.93	0.89	0.91	0.68	0.57	0.64	0.72
p value	0.0001	0.0004	0.0002	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.01
Co (LCL; UCL)	360 (257; 462)	476 (312; 640)	835 (572; 1099)	1498 (479; 2517)	791 (101; 1480)	2289 (586; 3992)	3124 (1176; 5073)

Italic values indicate statistically significance at p < 0.05