Direct Medical Costs of Type 2 Diabetes in France: An Insurance Claims Database Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our objects was to estimate the direct healthcare costs of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in France in 2013.

Methods

Data were drawn from a random sample of ≈600,000 patients registered in the French national health insurances database, which covers 90% of the French population. An algorithm was used to select patients with T2DM. Direct healthcare costs from a collective perspective were derived from the database and compared with those from a control group to estimate the cost of diabetes and related comorbidities. Overall direct costs were also compared according to the diabetes therapies used throughout the year 2013.

Results

Cost analysis was available for a sample of 25,987 patients with T2DM (mean age 67.5 ± standard deviation 12.5; 53.9% male) match

SUBMITTER: Charbonnel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5972121 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature