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Subject: Laparoscopic surgical procedures (question 4 of 4 related)
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: esresearch-ga
List Price: $100.00
Posted: 30 Dec 2004 09:18 PST
Expires: 29 Jan 2005 09:18 PST
Question ID: 449266
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.
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