Trends in Surgical Recurrence Among Pediatric Crohn's Disease Patients Using Administrative Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the growing armamentarium of medical therapies for Crohn's disease (CD), well over half of patients with CD will require surgical intervention. We estimated the surgical recurrence risk and characterized postoperative treatment and colonoscopy use in pediatric CD patients using a large, geographically diverse administrative claims database.

Methods

We analyzed postresection pediatric (≤18 years) CD patients identified in the 2007-2018 IQVIA Legacy PharMetrics administrative claims database using diagnosis and procedural codes. We estimated the surgical recurrence risk over time, characterized postoperative treatments, and reported the frequency of colonoscopy 6-15 months postoperatively.

Results

Among 434 pediatric CD patients who underwent intestin

SUBMITTER: Egberg MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951729 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature