Resource use and costs in an insured population of patients with chronic idiopathic/spontaneous urticaria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic idiopathic or spontaneous urticaria (CIU/CSU) impairs patients' quality of life, and updated information on disease prevalence, treatment patterns, and disease burden is lacking.

Objectives

We aimed to estimate these figures in a large US real-world claims database via a validated algorithm.

Methods

In this retrospective cross-sectional cohort study, we identified patients with CIU/CSU, estimated disease prevalence, comorbidities, and healthcare use (medications, office visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations) and costs (urticaria related and all cause).

Results

We identified 6350 CIU/CSU patients in a population of just over 5.8 million: 0.11 % prevalence. Women accounted for the majority of sufferers (68.3 %) and had a gre

SUBMITTER: Broder MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4529877 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature