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Jacke, Christoph

doi:10.14361/9783839445105-033

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“…Only small changes or extensions for the main assortment would not help to overcome this gap of methodological conceptualization. However, the majority of (market) studies do not provide methodological insights into the OTC measurement concepts and probably refer to the main assortment only by neglecting the peripheral assortment [2, 4,15].…”

Section: The Otc Measurement Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Claims data from the PHI refers to the ambulatory setting from the year 2016 [15]. The focus is on the prescriptions and drug-related receipts submitted by privately insured persons to 18 private health insurers (PHIs).…”

Section: Private Health Insurance Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The PHIs scan the prescriptions/receipts for a paperless flow of documents and save the data for further refund purposes. Once a year, the private health insurers report this consumption-related data to the central clearing-institution (Scientific Institute of Private Health Insurance, WIP) [15].…”

Section: Private Health Insurance Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The usage of over-the-counter products by private insured patients in Germany – a claims data analysis with focus on complementary medicine

Goetz

Kalder

Albert

et al. 2020

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background: An important contribution to well-being of human beings can be observed by the use of selfmedication products that is reflected in the constantly growing volume of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The aim of the current study was to extend the measurement concept for OTCs by exploring the relevance of the peripheral assortment provided by the widely accepted framework of the Anatomical Therapeutical and Chemical (ATC) classification of the WHO. Methods: The focus was on the prescriptions and drug-related receipts submitted by privately insured persons to 18 private health insurers (PHIs) in Germany from the year 2016. The age-and gender-specific average claims amount per risks of outpatient drug expenditure were used as weights to scale up the relative distributions of the item amounts. The ATC-classification defines the commodity groups and discriminates between the main and the peripheral assortment. A descriptive analysis assessed the OTC frequencies and sum scores of the product groups within the main and peripheral assortment whereby the study group explored and assessed the relevance of each category independently according to the OTCs and integrative medicines. Results: The analysis included 22.1 Mio. packages from the main assortment and examined 10.1 Mio. packages from the peripheral assortment. The latter was examined thoroughly and the commodity groups "Pharmaceutical food products", "Medicinal products for special therapy options" and particular "Hygiene and body care products" meet the defined requirements for OTCs relevant for integrative medicines. A high proportion of OTC products from the peripheral assortment was associated with the categories "medicinal products for special therapy options". Homeopathy and anthroposophy present two special therapy options, which are relevant for the extended OTC measurement.

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Section: The Otc Measurement Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Private Health Insurance Datamentioning

confidence: 99%