Burden of Hospitalization in Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

CONCLUSIONS: Adults with Ph(-) relapsed B-cell precursor ALL had repeated and prolonged hospitalizations during chemotherapy treatment associated with extremely high costs. More effective, tolerable treatments are needed. LIMITATIONS: The key limitation was that the data source included only individuals from the health plans or the mid-large size employers in the MarketScan database. Patients who were not covered under these plans, or were only on Medicaid or only on Medicare, would not appear in our analysis. PMID: 26960412 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research