Open AccessPredictors of High Health Care Utilization in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Within 1 Year of Establishing Specialist Care
Author(s) -
Kenechukwu Chudy-Onwugaje,
Alexander Mamunes,
David A. Schwartz,
Sara Horst,
Raymond K. Cross
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
inflammatory bowel diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1536-4844
pISSN - 1078-0998
DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izaa070
Subject(s) - medicine , inflammatory bowel disease , odds ratio , confidence interval , emergency department , psychological intervention , health care , retrospective cohort study , outpatient clinic , disease , multivariate analysis , ambulatory care , emergency medicine , nursing , economics , economic growth
A small proportion of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consume a disproportionate amount of health care resources, with most of these spent on unplanned care in emergency room (ER) and hospital visits. Interventions in those at high risk in the outpatient setting could reduce the need for future inpatient care. We sought to describe the characteristics predictive of high health care utilization within 1 year after an initial IBD clinic encounter.