Decreasing length of stay and inpatient mortality associated with pancreatic cancer hospitalizations: A United States national survey from 2008 to 2017

Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States (US). However, there is paucity of data on pancreatic cancer hospitalizations in the US. We analyzed the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to identify all hospitalizations of pancreatic cancer from 2008 to 2017. Hospitalization characteristics, adverse outcomes, and the disease burden on the US healthcare system was highlighted and further analyzed with respect to the US population. P-values ≤0.05 were statistically significant. We noted an increase in the total number of pancreatic cancer hospitalizations from 37,123 in 2008 to 37,635 in 2017 (p