Assessment of Annual Cost of Substance Use Disorder in US Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A persistently high US drug overdose death toll and increasing health care use associated with substance use disorder (SUD) create urgency for comprehensive estimates of attributable direct costs, which can assist in identifying cost-effective ways to prevent SUD and help people to receive effective treatment.

Objective

To estimate the annual attributable medical cost of SUD in US hospitals from the health care payer perspective.

Design, setting, and participants

This economic evaluation of observational data used multivariable regression analysis and mathematical modeling of hospital encounter costs, controlling for patient demographic, clinical, and insurance characteristics, and compared encounters with and without secondary SUD diagnosis to statisticall

SUBMITTER: Peterson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7936257 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature