Patients with coronary artery disease after acute myocardial infarction: effects of continuous enrollment in a structured Disease Management Program on adherence to guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures, and survival.
Eur J Health Econ
; 21(4): 607-619, 2020 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-32006188
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) carries increased risk of mortality and excess costs. Disease Management Programs (DMPs) providing guideline-recommended care for chronic diseases seem an intuitively appealing way to enhance health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions such as AMI. The aim of the study is to compare adherence to guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures and survival of patients enrolled and not enrolled in the German DMP for coronary artery disease (CAD) after an AMI from the perspective of a third-party payer over a follow-up period of 3 years.METHODS:
The study is based on routinely collected data from a regional statutory health insurance fund (n = 15,360). A propensity score matching with caliper method was conducted. Afterwards guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures, and survival between patients enrolled and not enrolled in the DMP were compared with generalized linear and Cox proportional hazard models.RESULTS:
The propensity score matching resulted in 3870 pairs of AMI patients previously and continuously enrolled and not enrolled in the DMP. In the 3-year follow-up period the proportion of days covered rates for ACE-inhibitors (60.95% vs. 58.92%), anti-platelet agents (74.20% vs. 70.66%), statins (54.18% vs. 52.13%), and ß-blockers (61.95% vs. 52.64%) were higher in the DMP group. Besides that, DMP participants induced lower health care expenditures per day (58.24 vs. 72.72) and had a significantly lower risk of death (HR 0.757).CONCLUSION:
Previous and continuous enrollment in the DMP CAD for patients after AMI is a promising strategy as it enhances guideline-recommended medication, reduces health care expenditures and the risk of death.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Doença da Artéria Coronariana
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Gastos em Saúde
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Gerenciamento Clínico
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Adesão à Medicação
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Infarto do Miocárdio
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Health Econ
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha