Epidemiology and treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee in Germany: A retrospective health claims data analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Osteoarthritis of the knee (knee OA) is a serious joint disease leading to pain and reduced quality of life. Pharmacological treatments include anti-inflammatories, analgesics, intraarticular hyaluronic acid, and intraarticular corticosteroids while for severe knee OA, knee replacement is an option. This study examined the incidence, prevalence, patient characteristics, and uptake of medical and surgical treatments in knee OA patients in Germany.

Design

A non-interventional, retrospective health claims data analysis with anonymized data from the InGef database was performed. Patients ≥18 years were analyzed cross-sectionally for each year 2015-2020. Newly diagnosed patients in 2015 were also longitudinally analyzed until end of 2020.

Results

Annual knee OA p

SUBMITTER: Obermuller D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811424 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature