Association Between Smoking Cessation Treatment and Healthcare Costs in a Single-Payer Public Healthcare System.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There has been little investigation of whether the clinical effectiveness of smoking cessation treatments translates into differences in healthcare costs, using real-world cost data, to determine whether anticipated benefits of smoking cessation treatment are being realized.

Aims and methods

We sought to determine the association between smoking cessation treatment and healthcare costs using linked administrative healthcare data. In total, 4752 patients who accessed a smoking cessation program in Ontario, Canada between July 2011 and December 2012 (treatment cohort) were each matched to a smoker who did not access these services (control cohort). The primary outcome was total healthcare costs in Canadian dollars, and secondary outcomes were sector-specific costs

SUBMITTER: Baliunas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9717383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature