Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.

Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multi-system autoimmune disease that can affect a person's physical, mental, and social life. It imposes a substantial economic burden up on patients, carers, healthcare systems, and wider society. This is the first study to examine the direct hea...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Francis Fatoye, Tadesse Gebrye, Lawrence W Svenson
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b178bac016704e549fd7c087fefeb186
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:b178bac016704e549fd7c087fefeb186
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b178bac016704e549fd7c087fefeb1862021-11-25T06:19:16ZDirect health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0251409https://doaj.org/article/b178bac016704e549fd7c087fefeb1862021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251409https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multi-system autoimmune disease that can affect a person's physical, mental, and social life. It imposes a substantial economic burden up on patients, carers, healthcare systems, and wider society. This is the first study to examine the direct health care costs of SLE in Alberta using real-world data. Alberta maintains a publicly funded, universally available health care system. Health service use and direct healthcare costs of SLE and non-SLE cases were determined from inpatient hospital services, fee-for-physician services, emergency services, and ambulatory care services. All costs were estimated for calendar year 2016. Data were analysed using central measures specifically the mean to determine the annual costs of SLE and non-SLE. A total number of 10,932 (Male = 2,546; Female = 8,386), and 41,851,36 (Male = 21,157,76; Female = 20,693,60) of SLE and non-SLE cases, respectively were included in this study. The mean annual costs of SLE, and non-SLE per case were $7,740.19 (Male = $7,986.59; Female = $7,665.38), and $2,479.53 (Male = $2,265.57; Female = $2,698.30), (p < 0.001) respectively. The mean annual costs of fee-for-physician services (SLE = $2,160.03; non-SLE = $840.00) (p < 0.001), inpatient hospital services (SLE = $3,462.86; non-SLE = $1,007.29), (p < 0.001) emergency services (SLE = $440.28; non-SLE = $176.65), (p < 0.001) and ambulatory care services (SLE = $1,677.03; non-SLE = $455.05) (p < 0.001) per case were estimated. The findings showed that the costs of SLE were considerably high for patients and healthcare system. This highlights the importance of appropriate treatment and management of SLE. Further studies are required to fully investigate both the direct and indirect economic burden of SLE including out-of-pocket expenses, costs to patients and caregivers and productivity loss.Francis FatoyeTadesse GebryeLawrence W SvensonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0251409 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Francis Fatoye Tadesse Gebrye Lawrence W Svenson Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
description	Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multi-system autoimmune disease that can affect a person's physical, mental, and social life. It imposes a substantial economic burden up on patients, carers, healthcare systems, and wider society. This is the first study to examine the direct health care costs of SLE in Alberta using real-world data. Alberta maintains a publicly funded, universally available health care system. Health service use and direct healthcare costs of SLE and non-SLE cases were determined from inpatient hospital services, fee-for-physician services, emergency services, and ambulatory care services. All costs were estimated for calendar year 2016. Data were analysed using central measures specifically the mean to determine the annual costs of SLE and non-SLE. A total number of 10,932 (Male = 2,546; Female = 8,386), and 41,851,36 (Male = 21,157,76; Female = 20,693,60) of SLE and non-SLE cases, respectively were included in this study. The mean annual costs of SLE, and non-SLE per case were $7,740.19 (Male = $7,986.59; Female = $7,665.38), and $2,479.53 (Male = $2,265.57; Female = $2,698.30), (p < 0.001) respectively. The mean annual costs of fee-for-physician services (SLE = $2,160.03; non-SLE = $840.00) (p < 0.001), inpatient hospital services (SLE = $3,462.86; non-SLE = $1,007.29), (p < 0.001) emergency services (SLE = $440.28; non-SLE = $176.65), (p < 0.001) and ambulatory care services (SLE = $1,677.03; non-SLE = $455.05) (p < 0.001) per case were estimated. The findings showed that the costs of SLE were considerably high for patients and healthcare system. This highlights the importance of appropriate treatment and management of SLE. Further studies are required to fully investigate both the direct and indirect economic burden of SLE including out-of-pocket expenses, costs to patients and caregivers and productivity loss.
format	article
author	Francis Fatoye Tadesse Gebrye Lawrence W Svenson
author_facet	Francis Fatoye Tadesse Gebrye Lawrence W Svenson
author_sort	Francis Fatoye
title	Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
title_short	Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
title_full	Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
title_fullStr	Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
title_full_unstemmed	Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.
title_sort	direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in alberta, canada.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/b178bac016704e549fd7c087fefeb186
work_keys_str_mv	AT francisfatoye directhealthsystemcostsforsystemiclupuserythematosuspatientsinalbertacanada AT tadessegebrye directhealthsystemcostsforsystemiclupuserythematosuspatientsinalbertacanada AT lawrencewsvenson directhealthsystemcostsforsystemiclupuserythematosuspatientsinalbertacanada
_version_	1718413945552764928

Direct health system costs for systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Alberta, Canada.

Ejemplares similares