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Predictors of direct costs of diabetes care in pediatric patients | 48655

Primary Health Care: Open Access

ISSN - 2167-1079

Predictors of direct costs of diabetes care in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes in Greece

Annual Congress & Medicare Expo on Primary Healthcare

April 25-27, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Karachaliou Feneli

P & A Kyriakou Children�s Hospital, Greece

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Primary Health Care

Abstract :

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease with increasing incidence and major impact on the health care costs. This is a retrospective cost-of-illness study, focusing on the direct costs from the healthcare system�s point of view and its predictors All patients aged 0-16 years, diagnosed with T1D, followed in the University Pediatric Department for a two-year period, were included. Total diabetes-related direct costs per person-year was estimated at �2,712 (95% CI 2,468-2,956). Diabetes healthcare provider and education visits. including laboratory tests, accounted for only 7.6%, costs for hospitalization for 1.7% and medication costs for 17% of total costs. Supply costs accounted for 73.7% and were the highest for insulin pump therapy (p=0.000). Total costs were significantly higher for a) use of multi-injection or pump therapy (p<0.0001), b) older age (p<0.001) and c) daily insulin dose (p<0.001). Patients on pump therapy had significantly higher costs compared to patients on multi-injection and conventional regimen (p=0.0001). However, patients on pump therapy had better glycaemic control compared to the rest of patients (p=0.039) Cost for hospitalization and outpatients� care for T1D patients followed in the public sector was rather low compared to other countries, the medication cost was at similar levels and the cost of supplies generally higher. The main predicting factor of cost was the use of pump. However, it is noteworthy that the use of pump was associated with better glycaemic control, which has to be co-estimated, since long-term microvascular complications constitute the major component of the total long-term diabetes care cost.

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