Downstream Complications and Healthcare Expenditure after Invasive Procedures for Lung Lesions in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to estimate the downstream complications and healthcare expenditure after invasive procedures for lung lesions, which in turn could be used for future cost-effectiveness analyses of lung cancer screening in Taiwan. We interlinked the Taiwan National Beneficiary Registry with the National Health Insurance Reimbursement databases to identify non-lung cancer individuals aged 50-80 years who underwent invasive lung procedures within one month after non-contrast chest computed tomography between 2014 and 2016. We directly matched one individual with 10 controls by age, gender, calendar year, residence area, comorbidities, and the past one-year healthcare expenditure to calculate incremental one-month complication rates and attributable costs. A total of 5805 individuals who und

SUBMITTER: Yang SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8068877 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature