Treatment patterns of knee osteoarthritis patients in Korea.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND/AIMS:To evaluate the treatment patterns of knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients in South Korea. METHODS:Using the Korean nationwide claims database, all knee OA patients in Korea during 2014 were identified by the knee OA diagnostic code (M17) or any OA diagnostic code (M15 to M19) in combination with a procedure for a knee X-ray. Patterns of medications such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids (CSs), analgesics, and symptomatic slow acting drugs for OA (SYSADOA) were analyzed. Prevalence and characteristics of knee OA patients who received a CS intra-articular injection (IAI) were also evaluated. RESULTS:We identified 2,016,516 knee OA patients whose age (mean ± standard deviation) was 63.2 ± 10.8 years. The number of patients with at least one use of

SUBMITTER: Park HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718767 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature