European’ health care indicators and pancreatic cancer incidence and mortality: A mediation analysis of Eurostat data and Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

To highlight correlations existing between incidence and mortality of pancreatic cancer, and health care indicators in 36 European countries. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and Eurostat databases were queried between 2004 and 2019. Incidence and mortality were age-standardized. From Eurostat, in...

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Published in:Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] 2023-11, Vol.23 (7), p.829-835
Main Authors: Cucchetti, Alessandro, Johnson, Philip, Capurso, Gabriele, Crippa, Stefano, Pacilio, Carlo Alberto, Fabbri, Carlo, Falconi, Massimo, Ercolani, Giorgio
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Language:English
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Eurostat
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Mediation analysis
Pancreatic cancer
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Summary:To highlight correlations existing between incidence and mortality of pancreatic cancer, and health care indicators in 36 European countries. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and Eurostat databases were queried between 2004 and 2019. Incidence and mortality were age-standardized. From Eurostat, indicators regarding expenditure, hospital beds, medical technology, health personnel, physicians by medical specialty and unmet needs for medical examination were extracted. Correlations between GBD and Eurostat data were analysed through mediation analysis applying clustering for countries. Incidence increased by +0.6% per year (p = 0.001) and mortality by +0.3% (p = 0.001), being increasing for most of the European countries considered. Incidence and mortality were strongly positively correlated (p = 0.001). Higher current health expenditure, expenditure in inpatient curative care, the number of available beds, the number of computed tomography scan, magnetic resonance units, practising medical doctors were all related to higher incidence (p 
ISSN:1424-3903
1424-3911
DOI:10.1016/j.pan.2023.09.001