BackgroundThe aim of the study was to determine the costs of treating schizophrenia from the perspective of the statutory health insurance, as well as the identification of predictors of hospitalisation of formerly stable schizophrenia patients.MethodsClaims data for the years 2004–2006 were analysed. Patients who did not have to be treated in a hospital as a result of an ICD diagnosis F20 both in the year 2005 as well as also in 2006 were defined as stable patients. In contrast, those patients who had to be treated in a hospital in 2006 because of a diagnosis of schizophrenia were defined as unstable. In addition to the overall healthcare costs, the costs specific to schizophrenia were also analysed. Also, based on binary logistic regression analysis, predictors for hospital treatment were determined.Results8497 stable and 1449 unstable patients were identified. The schizophrenia specific costs for stable patients were € 1605 and the overall costs were € 4029 in 2006, respectively. Unstable patients had indication-specific costs amounting to € 12864 and overall health care costs of € 16824. For unstable patients, the costs of hospital treatment were identified as being a substantial cost area. Predictors for a higher probability of hospital treatment were: female patients, at least one rehabilitation measure, at least one stay in hospital in 2004, and being co-morbid with substance abuse. In contrast, older patients, who were treated with concomitant medications, and if they received a continuous drug therapy in all quarters of a year had a lower probability of hospitalisation. In addition, an increased number of visits to a doctor reduced the probability of hospitalisation. The variable ‘depot medication’ were close to significance and the variable ‘inability to work lasting more than six weeks’ had, in contrast, no significant influence.ConclusionsThe schizophrenia specific and overall health care costs of unstable patients were clearly higher than was the case with stable patients and mainly determined by inpatient hospital treatment. A range of potential predicting factors which can be extracted from routine claims data have a positive or negative influence on the probability of treatment in hospital.

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prostate cancer) (C60-63), 10.7% had malignant neoplasms of digestive organs (C15-26) and 8,4% showed malignant neoplasms of ill-defined, secondary and unspecified sites (C76-80). The outpatient diagnosis rate for CLL was 94.9%, inpatient rate 0.6% and in-and outpatient rate 4.6%. Overall, 266 of 1,405 pts (18.9%) (175 men [65.8%], 91 women [34.2%]) received chemotherapy in 2012 (ATC Code L01* 74.1%, PZN 9999092 23.0%, OPS 854* 2.9%). Most patients received outpatient treatment (94.0%), with 5.3%of patients received both out-and inpatient treatment and 0.7% inpatient treatment. The most commonly used treatments were rituximab (26.7%), bendamustine (20.2%), chlorambucil (11.1%), cyclophosphamide (7.7%), fludarabine (6.2%) and other treatments (28.1%). ConClusions: The majority of patients being diagnosed with CLL did not require treatment within a time period of a year. Approximately 1/3 of patients had a second malignancy, predominantly skin cancer. Treatment was primarily composed of chemotherapy or chemoimmunotherapy.objeCtives: To estimate the annual number of patients in France with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and MyeloDysplasic Syndrom (MDS) and treated with intensive chemotherapy susceptible to induce neutropenia. Methods: French hospital databases named PMSI record medical information about all the hospitalizations performed annually in France. From 2006 to 2012, databases allow linking the stays over time of a given patient with an anonymous number. In this study, PMSI databases were used to identify patient, aged more than 15, with diagnosis of AML or MDS and who were alive during the year 2012. Then, patients who underwent hospital stays for chemotherapy during more than 5 days were identified and considered as neutropenic according to experts opinions. Results: Since 2006, 51,386 patients with at least one diagnosis of AML or MDS and aged more than 15 were identified, from which only, 16,006 had at least one hospital stay in 2012 and 3,468 were hospitalized more than 5 days for chemotherapy. Among those patients, 55.2% were male, mean age was 60.4 years, 30% died during a hospital stay and 19% (664) were bone marrow grafted during the year 2012. These patients had 1.8 stays for chemotherapy per year with average chemotherapy duration of 27 days. Two third of these patients (34%) were diagnosed in 2012 and 23% in 2011. ConClusions: Among the 16,006 patients diagnosed AML or SMD and hospitalized in France in 2012, 3, 468 (21%) received intensive chemotherapy inducing neutropenia, putting them at high risk of invasive fungal infection.