Predictors of High Health Care Utilization in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Within 1 Year of Establishing Specialist Care
| Autor: | Sara N. Horst, Raymond K. Cross, Kenechukwu Chudy-Onwugaje, Alexander P. Mamunes, David A. Schwartz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Multivariate analysis Inpatient care business.industry Gastroenterology Psychological intervention Retrospective cohort study Health Care Costs Odds ratio Patient Acceptance of Health Care Inflammatory Bowel Diseases United States Confidence interval Hospitalization Clinical Research Chronic Disease Emergency medicine Health care medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Outpatient clinic Emergency Service Hospital business Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Inflamm Bowel Dis |
| ISSN: | 1536-4844 1078-0998 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ibd/izaa070 |
| Popis: | Background A small proportion of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consume a disproportionate amount of health care resources, with most of these spent on unplanned care in emergency room (ER) and hospital visits. Interventions in those at high risk in the outpatient setting could reduce the need for future inpatient care. We sought to describe the characteristics predictive of high health care utilization within 1 year after an initial IBD clinic encounter. Methods This was a retrospective study of new IBD patients seen at the outpatient clinics of 2 tertiary IBD centers in the United States. Baseline sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were collected, and the number of IBD-related ER and hospital visits were recorded over the 1-year period after the initial clinic encounter. Patients with ≥2 visits (high utilizers) were compared with those with no visits. Results Of the 735 patients included in the final analysis, 106 (14.4%) were high utilizers, and they had a mean of 2.9 visits (maximum = 10) in the 1 year after their initial encounter. In multivariate analysis, insurance coverage through medical assistance (odds ratio [OR] 3.57; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.38–9.20), steroid use (OR 1.83; 95% CI, 1.11–3.04), short inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire score Conclusions Multidisciplinary care and resources should be preferentially channeled towards new clinic patients with severe disease and on medical assistance, as this could reduce future inpatient visits and result in cost savings. |
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