1. Dual versus triple therapy in patients hospitalized for COPD in France: a claims data study
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Hervé Pegliasco, Bruno Housset, Philippe Devillier, F. Dalon, Eric Van Ganse, Maeva Nolin, Gaëtan Deslée, Nicolas Roche, and Manon Belhassen
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COPD ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030228 respiratory system ,Disease severity ,Internal medicine ,Claims data ,Propensity score matching ,Health care ,medicine ,Resource use ,In patient ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,Cost of care - Abstract
Purposes Following a hospitalization for COPD, dual and triple therapies were compared in terms of persistence and relations with outcomes (exacerbations, health care resource use and costs). Methods This was a historical observational database study. All patients aged ≥45 hospitalized for COPD between 2007 and 2015 were identified in a 1/97th random sample of French claims data. Patients receiving dual therapy within 60 days after hospitalization were compared to patients receiving triple therapy, after propensity score matching on disease severity. Results Of the 3,089 patients hospitalized for COPD, 1,538 (49.8%) received either dual or triple therapy in the 2 months following inclusion, and 1,500 (48.6%) had at least 30 days of follow-up available; 846 (27.4%) received dual therapy, and 654 (21.2%) received triple therapy. After matching, the number of exacerbations was 2.4 per year in the dual vs 2.3 in the triple group (p=0.45). Among newly treated patients (n=206), persistence at 12 months was similar in the dual and triple groups (48% vs 41%, respectively, p=0.37). As compared to patients on dual therapy, more patients on triple therapy received oral corticosteroids (49.1 vs 40.4%, p=0.003) or were hospitalized for any reason (67% vs 55.8%, p=0.0001) or for COPD (35.3 vs 25.1%, p=0.0002) during follow-up. Cost of care was higher for patients on triple than for those on dual therapy (€11,877.1 vs €9,825.1, p=0.01). Conclusion Following hospitalizations for COPD, patients on dual and triple therapy experienced recurrent exacerbations, limited adherence to therapies and high cost of care. Patients on triple therapy appeared more severe than those on dual therapy, as reflected by exacerbations and health care resource use.
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- 2019