Cost Burden of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in the 10-Year Period Before Diagnosis-A Danish Register-Based Study From 2003-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The diagnostic delay in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is well known, yet the costs associated with diagnoses before IBD diagnosis have not yet been reported. This study explored societal costs and disease diagnoses 10 years before Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) diagnosis in Denmark.

Methods

This national register study included patients diagnosed between 2003 and 2015 identified in the Danish National Patient Registry (NPR) and controls who were individually matched on age and sex from the general population. Societal costs included health care services, prescription medicine, home care services, and labor productivity loss. Prediagnostic hospital contact occurring before CD or UC diagnosis was identified using the NPR. Average annual costs pe

SUBMITTER: Vadstrup K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7441097 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature