Kansas University Cancer Center, Westwood, KS
Saqib Abbasi , Elizabeth Marie Wulff-Burchfield , Rahul Atul Parikh
Background: Salvage therapy for advanced Testicular Carcinoma involves patients receiving ifosfamide are treated in hospital for risk of neuro-toxicities. We evaluated annual trends to assess the health care burden of testicular patients admitted for chemotherapy, as well as co-morbidities and complications associated with mortality. Methods: The National Inpatient Sample is a nationwide sample of all US hospital discharges. We collected data from the years of 2002 to 2017 on patients with Testicular Carcinoma who were receiving chemotherapy, to capture patients recieving ifosfamide and cisplatin in an in-patient setting. Patients undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant were excluded. Annual trends for inpatient mortality, length of stay, and total costs of admission were assessed. A univariate logistic regression analysis was used to calculate odds ratios (OR) for the effect of comorbid conditions and acute inpatient complications on in-patient mortality. Results: Hospitalizations for ifosfamide and cisplatin based treatment among patients with Testicular Carcinoma remained stable from a weighted national estimate of 2,261 in 2002 to 2,160 in 2017. Length of stay increased from 4.6 days to 5.5 days (p=0.01). Cost of stay increased from $26,140 to $53,193 (p <0.001) when adjusted for inflation. The average age of patients was 32.6 years. In-patient mortality was low at 0.2% in 2002 to <0.1% in 2017. Among comorbid conditions, heart failure was associated with increased mortality (OR 21.9). Among acute complications – acute kidney injury (OR 32.6), infection (OR 15.3), neurotoxicity (OR 12.3) were associated with significantly higher mortality. Conclusions: The increase in cost of stay is out of proportion to increases in length of stay. Indicating a disproportionate increase in financial toxicity for these patients. Patients with underlying heart disease are at increased risk of complications. Care needs to be taken to specifically identify patients at risk for renal failure and infectious complications.
Co-morbid Condition/Complication | Odds Ratio | 95% Wald | P-value | |
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Confidence | Limits | |||
Age > 40 | 1.95 | 0.71 | 5.38 | 0.1956 |
Heart Failure | 21.93 | 2.78 | 173.26 | 0.0034 |
Atrial Fibrillation | 4 | 0.36 | 45.14 | 0.2621 |
Hypertension | 0.24 | 0.03 | 2.03 | 0.1917 |
Acute Renal Failure | 32.63 | 12.01 | 88.65 | <.0001 |
Infection | 15.28 | 4.87 | 47.9 | <.0001 |
Neurotoxicity | 12.34 | 1.59 | 95.72 | 0.0162 |
Venous Thromboembolism | 2.35 | 0.53 | 10.37 | 0.2595 |
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