Temporal trends of medical cost and cost-effectiveness in sepsis patients: a Japanese nationwide medical claims database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sepsis is the leading cause of death worldwide. Although the mortality of sepsis patients has been decreasing over the past decade, the trend of medical costs and cost-effectiveness for sepsis treatment remains insufficiently determined.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective study using the nationwide medical claims database of sepsis patients in Japan between 2010 and 2017. After selecting sepsis patients with a combined diagnosis of presumed serious infection and organ failure, patients over the age of 20 were included in this study. We investigated the annual trend of medical costs during the study period. The primary outcome was the annual trend of the effective cost per survivor, calculated from the gross medical cost and number of survivors per year. Subseque

SUBMITTER: Oami T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9281011 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature