Health care resource utilization and costs associated with atrial fibrillation and rural-urban disparities.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) imposes substantial health care and economic burden on health care systems and patients. Previous studies failed to examine health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs among patients with incident AF and potential disparity with regard to geographic location. OBJECTIVES: To examine HCRU and costs among patients with incident AF compared with patients without AF and examine whether a geographic disparity exists. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study. We selected patients with AF and patients without AF from IBM/Watson MarketScan Research Databases 2014-2019. HCRU and costs were collected 12 months following an AF index date. We used 2-part models with bootstrapping to obtain the marginal estimates and CIs. Rural status

SUBMITTER: Jiang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373033 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature