Hospital Admissions for Neoplasms in Brazil, 2008-2018: Expenses and Lenght of Stay

Abstract

Introduction: Neoplasms represent the second leading cause of death in Brazil, however ensuring full and balanced assistance to diagnosis and treatment in the regions of the country remains one of the biggest challenges of the Brazilian health system. Objective: To describe the rates of hospitalization by neoplasms in Brazil between the years 2008 and 2018, to calculate hospital expenditures and the length of stay of hospitalizations by neoplasms in the Unified Health System (SUS). Method: Ecological study of time series with data from SUS Hospital Information System. Results: In the 2008-2018 history series, there were 7,578,552 hospitalizations for neoplasms in SUS, 59% of which in female patients, 20% in the age-range between 50 and 59 years old, 43%, Caucasian and 44% in the country’s southeastern region. The total cost of hospital admissions by neoplasms reached R$ 13,225,554,102.73, with an average stay of 5.4 days of hospitalization per patient. Conclusion: This is the first study that uses the entire country as a territorial unit of analysis, so it is expected that further studies involving hospital morbidity in the country will be developed.