Chronic Hepatitis B Costs and Healthcare Resource Utilization in a Japanese Patient Population: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Data on the economic burden of chronic hepatitis B infection in Japan are lacking. This study investigated healthcare resource utilization and costs of chronic hepatitis B infection and liver complications in Japan.

Methods

This non-interventional study used the Medical Data Vision database. For the first analysis, a population with prevalent chronic hepatitis B infection and absence of liver complications was identified and further stratified by nucleos(t)ide analog treatment history. In the second analysis, patients with prevalent chronic hepatitis B infection and incident liver complications were identified. Patients were followed for 1 year in the first analysis and 2 years in the second analysis. Numbers of all-cause outpatient, inpatient, emergency hospita

SUBMITTER: Ju S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11817863 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature