Associations of Healthcare Utilization and Costs with Increasing Pain and Treatment Intensity Levels in Osteoarthritis Patients: An 18-Year Retrospective Study
| العنوان: | Associations of Healthcare Utilization and Costs with Increasing Pain and Treatment Intensity Levels in Osteoarthritis Patients: An 18-Year Retrospective Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Jove Graham, Tonia Novosat, Haiyan Sun, Brian J. Piper, Joseph A. Boscarino, Melissa S. Kern, Vanessa A. Hayduk, Eric A. Wright, Craig Beck, Rebecca L. Robinson, Edward Casey, Jerry Hall, Patricia Dorling |
| المصدر: | Rheumatology and Therapy. 9:1061-1078 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy |
| الوصف: | BackgroundOsteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disease, and prior studies have documented the health and economic burdens of patients with OA compared to those without OA. Our goal was to use two strategies to further stratify OA patients based on both pain and treatment intensity to examine healthcare utilization and costs using electronic records from 2001-2018 at a large integrated health system. Methods Adult patients with ≥1 pain numerical rating score (NRS) and diagnosis of OA were included. Pain episodes of ≥90 days were defined as mild (0-3), moderate (4-6) or severe (7-10) based on initial NRS. Patients were initially classified as mild and moved to moderate-severe OA if any of eight treatment-based criteria were met. Outpatient visits (OP), emergency department visits (ED), inpatient days, and healthcare costs (both all-cause and OA-specific) were compared among pain levels and OA severity levels as frequencies and per-member-per-year rates, using generalized linear regression models adjusting for age, sex and body mass index, with contrasts of pResultsWe identified 127,656 patients, 92,576 with pain scores. Moderate and severe pain were associated with significantly higher rates of OA-related utilization and costs, and all-cause ED visits and pharmacy costs. Moderate-severe OA patients had significantly higher OA-related utilization and costs, and all-cause OP, ED and pharmacy costs. ConclusionsPain and treatment intensity were both strongly associated with OA-related resource utilization but not consistently with all-cause utilization. With better understanding of how OA patients intensify services, thus increasing costs, we can deploy targeted preventative strategies aimed at halting progression into more costly phases of the disease. |
| تدمد: | 2198-6584 2198-6576 |
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| حقوق: | OPEN |
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