I am trying to find out approximately how many laparoscopic surgeries
of SPECIFIC operations are performed each year. I have seen
statistics that between 2.5M - 3M laparoscopic surgeries were
performed in the U.S. in 2003. NIH-CDC publishes information on how
many surgical procedures were performed each year, but does not
specifiy whether they were performed using open surgery or
laparoscopic surgery. In 2002, for example, the following procedures
were performed:
Repair of obstetric laceration 1,200,000
Endoscopy of small intestine 1,032,000
Hysterectomy 669,000
Endoscopy of large intestine 578,000
Coronary artery bypass graft 515,000
Cholecystectomy 436,000
Appendectomy 329,000
Partial excision of large intestine 263,000
Hernia repair 230,000
Prostatectomy 195,000
Gastric bypass 67,000
TOTAL 4,967,000
My question is: how many (or what percent) of each procedure were
performed laparoscopically compared to open surgery? It may be that
there are other ways to categorize types of operations (whether by DRG
or CPT, as compared to the NIH-CDC classification I found), and I will
accept statistics on number of laparoscopic procedures for any
categorization that provides a comparable level of detail--
specifically, it adds up ROUGHLY (ie, to within 20%) of the total
number of laparoscopic procedures performed annually AND it provides
at least 10 subcategories (ie, knowing that there are 2M abdominal
laparoscopic proceures and .7M thoracic laparoscopic procedures does
not provide me with enough specificity). If you find a
subcategorization that doesn't meet these criteria, you can post it
without the data and I'll confirm whether I can live with it or not. |