Associations of Healthcare Utilization and Costs with Increasing Pain and Treatment Intensity Levels in Osteoarthritis Patients: an 18-Year Retrospective Study
Abstract:BackgroundOsteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disease, and prior studies have documented the health and economic burdens of patients with OA compared to those without OA. Our goal was to use two strategies to further stratify OA patients based on both pain and treatment intensity to examine healthcare utilization and costs using electronic records from 2001-2018 at a large integrated health system. Methods Adult patients with ≥1 pain numerical rating score (NRS) and diagnosis of OA were included. Pain episodes of… Show more
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