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- Title
Assessing real-world effectiveness of therapies: what is the impact of incretin-based treatments on hospital use for patients with type 2 diabetes?
- Authors
Bussiere, Clémence; Chauvin, Pauline; Josselin, Jean-Michel; Sevilla-Dedieu, Christine
- Abstract
Background: Managing type 2 diabetes represents a major public health concern due to its important and increasing prevalence. Our study investigates the impact of taking incretin-based medication on the risk of being hospitalized and the length of hospital stay for individuals with type 2 diabetes. Method: We use claim panel data from 2011 to 2015 and provide difference-in-differences (DID) estimations combined with matching techniques to better ensure the treatment and control groups' comparability. Our propensity score selects individuals according to their probability of taking an incretin-based treatment in 2013 (N = 2,116). The treatment group includes individuals benefiting from incretin-based treatments from 2013 to 2015 and is compared to individuals not benefiting from such a treatment but having a similar probability of taking it. Results: After controlling for health-related and socio-economic variables, we show that benefiting from an incretin-based treatment does not significantly impact the probability of being hospitalized but does significantly decrease the annual number of days spent in the hospital by a factor rate of 0.621 compared with the length of hospital stays for patients not benefiting from such a treatment. Conclusion: These findings highlight the potential implications for our health care system in case of widespread use of these drugs among patients with severe diabetes.
- Subjects
TYPE 2 diabetes; PEOPLE with diabetes; HOSPITAL utilization; HOSPITAL patients; HOSPITAL care of children; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
Health Economics Review, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2191-1991
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13561-022-00397-5