Hospital burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension in France.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a severe disease associated with frequent hospitalisations. This retrospective analysis of the French medical information PMSI-MSO database aimed to describe incident cases of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension hospitalised in France in 2013 and to document associated hospitalisation costs from the national health insurance perspective.

Methods

Cases of pulmonary arterial hypertension were identified using a diagnostic algorithm. All cases hospitalised in 2013 with no hospitalisation the previous two years were retained. All hospital stays during the year following the index hospitalisation were extracted, and classified as incident stays, monitoring stays or stays due to disease worsening. Costs were attributed

SUBMITTER: Bergot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6752797 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature