Hospitalisation patterns of patients with interstitial lung disease in the light of comorbidities and medical treatment - a German claims data analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a heterogeneous group of mainly chronic lung diseases differing in disease course and prognosis. For most subtypes, evidence on relevance and outcomes of hospitalisations is lacking.

Methods

Using German claims data we investigated number of hospitalisations (zero-inflated-negative-binomial models providing rate ratios (RR)) and time to first hospitalisation (Cox proportional-hazard models providing hazard ratios (RR)) for nine ILD-subtypes. Models were stratified by ILD-related and non-ILD-related hospitalisations. We adjusted for age, gender, ILD-subtype, ILD-relevant comorbidities and ILD-medication (immunosuppressive drugs, steroids, anti-fibrotic drugs).

Results

Among 36,816 ILD-patients (mean age 64.7 years, 56.2% ma

SUBMITTER: Walscher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7098099 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature