Open AccessBurden of rheumatoid arthritis among US Medicare population: co-morbidities, health-care resource utilization and costs
Author(s) -
Chieh-I Chen,
Li Wang,
Wenhui Wei,
Hüseyin Yüce,
Kristine Phillips
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
rheumatology advances in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.539
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 2514-1775
DOI - 10.1093/rap/rky005
Subject(s) - medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , population , intensive care medicine , arthritis , health care , physical therapy , environmental health , economics , economic growth
Among US Medicare patients, those with an RA diagnosis had a significantly greater burden of co-morbidities, HCRU and costs compared with a matched cohort without RA.
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