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Impact on healthcare resource utilization of multiple sclerosis in Spain

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2017
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Title
Impact on healthcare resource utilization of multiple sclerosis in Spain
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2807-x
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Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Elena Ruíz-Beato, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Jorge Maurino

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease with a high socioeconomic impact. The aim of this study was to assess healthcare resources utilization and costs in a sample of patients with MS. A retrospective, cohort study was conducted using electronic medical records from 19 primary care centres in Asturias and Catalonia, Spain. Adult patients diagnosed with MS were distributed into two groups according to the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score: 0-3.5 (no-moderate disability) and 4-9.5 (severe disability). Healthcare (direct cost) and non-healthcare costs (work productivity losses) were analysed. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used for correction, p < 0.05. A multiple regression model was performed to obtain the variables associated with costs. A total of 222 patients were analyzed; mean (SD) age: 45.5 (12.5) years, 64.4% female, and 62.2% presented a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting MS. Median EDSS score was 2.5, with 68.5% of the patients with no to moderate disability. The mean annual cost per MS patient was €25,103. For no-moderate and severe disability, the ANCOVA-adjusted mean annual cost was €23,157 and €29,242, respectively (p = 0.013). Direct costs and MS disease-modifying therapy accounted for 39.4% and 31.7% of the total costs, respectively. The total costs were associated with number of relapses (β = 0.135, p = 0.001), time since diagnosis (β = 0.281, p = 0.023), and age (β = 0.198, p = 0.037). Multiple sclerosis imposes a substantial economic burden on the Spanish National Health System, patients and society as a whole. Costs significantly correlated with disease progression.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 147 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 35 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Student > Master 12 8%
Researcher 11 7%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 37 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 70 48%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 4%
Neuroscience 5 3%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 11 7%
Unknown 39 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 January 2018.
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#6,785,170
of 23,015,156 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,275
of 7,706 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#135,719
of 441,864 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#89
of 172 outputs
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