Analysis of Long-Term Medical Expenses in Vertebral Fracture Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study was to analyze the direct medical expenses of a vertebral fracture cohort (VC) and a matched cohort (MC) over 5 years preceding and following the fracture, analyze the duration of the rise in medical expenses due to the fracture, and examine whether the expenses vary with age group, utilizing a national claims database.

Methods

Subjects with vertebral fractures and matched subjects were chosen from the National Health Insurance Service Sample cohort (NHIS-Sample) of South Korea. Patients with vertebral fractures were either primarily admitted to acute care hospitals (index admissions) or those who received kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty during the follow-up period (2002-2015). A risk-set matching was performed using 1 : 5 random sampling

SUBMITTER: Kim SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689215 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature