Excess Healthcare Costs and Resource Utilisation of Lyme Borreliosis in Germany: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease in Germany; however, data on the economic burden of LB are limited. In this study, we aim to report healthcare costs, healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU) and diagnostic consumption associated with LB by clinical manifestation.

Method

Using specific case definitions, patients with localised disease (erythema migrans [EM]) or disseminated disease (Lyme arthritis [LA], Lyme neuroborreliosis [LNB] and other rarer manifestations [OTH]) were identified from a claims database in 2016 and followed up for 3 years (2016-2019). After propensity score matching, excess costs and HCRU were calculated as the differences between each LB cohort and the matched control cohort.

Results

On a per-patient basis, the excess

SUBMITTER: Brestrich G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11695699 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature