Treatment Status and Healthcare Cost Trends for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Japan: A Claims Database Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The healthcare situation of multiple sclerosis (MS) and its course are not being thoroughly investigated in Japan. We aimed to examine the current healthcare situation, including treatment and healthcare costs, of MS according to duration since its first diagnosis using Japanese real-world data to determine unidentified healthcare issues at each disease stage.

Methods

This retrospective, non-comparative, non-interventional study used a Japanese nationwide claims database (April 2008-August 2018) comprising 20 million patients from 329 acute care hospitals (as of June 2018). Treatment patterns, comorbidities, healthcare resource utilization, and healthcare costs were analyzed using longitudinal analyses of patients with MS according to duration since the first di

SUBMITTER: Kawachi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9338194 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature