Costs of psychotropics for outpatients with bipolar disorder in Japan; the MUSUBI 2016 survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the costs of bipolar disorder (BD) treatments are associated with local and universal factors, data from non-Western countries remain limited. The associations between clinical features and costs of outpatient pharmacotherapy have not been well characterize. To estimate the costs of outpatient BD treatments and their associations with clinical features in a Japanese population, we investigated with special reference to the costs of medicines constituted the bulk of the total healthcare expense and were steadily increasing.

Methods

The Multicenter Treatment Survey for Bipolar Disorder (MUSUBI) retrospectively evaluated 3130 patients with BD who visited 176 Japanese psychiatric outpatient clinics in 2016. Clinical features and drug prescriptions were record

SUBMITTER: Adachi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10281415 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature