Journal of medical economics
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This study aimed to examine the real-world healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and direct costs among chronic bronchitis (CB) patients treated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) maintenance medications. ⋯ HCRU and costs among CB patients were substantial during follow-up, despite treatment with COPD maintenance medications. Additional interventions aiming to prevent or reduce HCRU and costs among CB patients warrant exploration.
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To investigate adherence to dornase alfa therapy among commercially-insured patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and to examine the impact of adherence on health and economic outcomes. ⋯ Adherence to dornase alfa was generally low, but varied by age and season. Adherence was not found to be significantly associated with respiratory exacerbations or total charges, but was associated with shorter hospital length of stay.
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To evaluate the burden of hyponatremia in terms of hospital resource utilization, costs, and 30-day hospital readmission among patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) in routine clinical practice. ⋯ Hyponatremia in HF patients is a predictor of increased hospital resource use and represents a potential target for intervention to reduce healthcare expenditures.
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Comparative Study
Real-world treatment pattern and outcomes among patients who took tapentadol IR or oxycodone IR.
To evaluate differences in patient characteristics, healthcare resource utilization, and healthcare costs among patients receiving immediate release (IR) formulations of tapentadol (TAP IR) or oxycodone (OXY IR). ⋯ The characteristics of patients who took TAP IR were different from patients who took OXY IR in many respects. In the sub-set of patients matched on demographic and clinical characteristics, those who took TAP IR used healthcare resources to a lesser extent, which was reflected in their lower healthcare charges, relative to OXY IR users.
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Nausea is a common migraine symptom that is associated with impaired quality-of-life and functional disability. In this study, population-based data were used to elucidate the relationship between nausea frequency and headache-related healthcare utilization and costs in persons with migraine. ⋯ This study relied on self-reported headache frequency and healthcare costs which are subject to recall bias and under-reporting; however, reporting bias is unlikely to be different as a function of nausea frequency. In addition, medication use costs and indirect costs (which may be higher than direct costs for migraine) were not assessed.