Complications and Health Care Resource Utilization Associated with Systemic Corticosteroids in Children and Adolescents with Persistent Asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited comparative data are available on the impact of systemic corticosteroid (SCS) use in children and adolescents.

Objective

To determine if asthmatic children and adolescents treated with SCS have a higher likelihood of developing complications versus those not receiving SCS and to examine health care resource utilization (HCRU) in this population.

Methods

A retrospective study of data from children and adolescents with persistent asthma retrieved from the MarketScan database, a large US health claims data set, for the period 2000 to 2017 was performed. Propensity score matching was used to pair patients in the SCS and control cohorts. For complications, SCS subgroups (≥4 or 1-3 annual prescriptions) were compared with asthmatic controls without SCS us

SUBMITTER: Sullivan PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8393544 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature