Health-care utilization and costs in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus in the United Kingdom: a real-world observational retrospective cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim was to describe direct health-care costs for adults with SLE in the UK over time and by disease severity and encounter type.

Methods

Patients aged ≥18 years with SLE were identified using the linked Clinical Practice Research Datalink-Hospital Episode Statistics database from January 2005 to December 2017. Patients were classified as having mild, moderate or severe disease using an adapted claims-based algorithm based on prescriptions and co-morbid conditions. We estimated all-cause health-care costs and incremental costs associated with each year of follow-up compared with a baseline year, adjusting for age, sex, disease severity and co-morbid conditions (2017 UK pounds).

Results

We identified 802 patients; 369 (46.0%) with mild, 345 (43.0%) moderat

SUBMITTER: Samnaliev M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493101 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature