Economic Burden in Chinese Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Using Electronic Insurance Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a paucity of studies that focus on the economic burden in daily care in China using electronic health data. The aim of this study is to describe the development of the economic burden of diabetic patients in a sample city in China from 2009 to 2011 using electronic data of patients' claims records.

Methods

This study is a retrospective, longitudinal study in an open cohort of Chinese patients with diabetes. The patient population consisted of people living in a provincial capital city in east China, covered by the provincial urban employee basic medical insurance (UEBMI). We included any patient who had at least one explicit diabetes diagnosis or received blood glucose lowering medication in at least one registered outpatient visit or hospitalization duri

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003380 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature