Health care costs in US patients with and without a diagnosis of osteoarthritis
| Autor: | T. Kim Le, Dennis C. Ang, LB Montejano, Yang Zhao, Zhun Cao |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:R5-920 business.industry Retrospective cohort study Osteoarthritis medicine.disease Comorbidity Confidence interval Indirect costs Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Quality of life Internal medicine Health care medicine Diagnosis code Journal of Pain Research business lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pain Research, Vol 2012, Iss default, Pp 23-30 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 1178-7090 |
| Popis: | T Kim Le1, Leslie B Montejano2, Zhun Cao2, Yang Zhao1, Dennis Ang31Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, 2Thomson Reuters, Washington, DC, 3Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USABackground: Osteoarthritis is a chronic and costly condition affecting 14% of adults in the US, and has a significant impact on patient quality of life. This retrospective cohort study compared direct health care utilization and costs between patients with osteoarthritis and a matched control group without osteoarthritis.Methods: MarketScan® databases were used to identify adult patients with an osteoarthritis claim (ICD-9-CM, 715.xx) in 2007, and the date of first diagnosis served as the index. Patients were excluded if they did not have 12 months of continuous health care benefit prior to and following the index date, were aged |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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