Health care resource utilization and burden of disease in a U.S. Medicare population with a principal diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the knee.

CONCLUSIONS: Many Medicare beneficiaries received care for knee OA, and these patients had significantly greater HCRU than those with the absence of knee OA, totaling over $34 billion in healthcare expenditures in 2014. PMID: 32715848 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32715848?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Medical Economics - July 28, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research