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Title: Population-based analysis of patients with COPD in Catalonia: a cohort study with implications for clinical management
Author: Vela, Emili
Tényi, Ákos
Cano Franco, Isaac
Monterde Prat, David
Cleries, Montserrat
Garcia-Altes, A.
Hernández, Carmen
Escarrabill Sanglas, Joan
Roca Torrent, Josep
Keywords: Malalties pulmonars obstructives cròniques
Catalunya
Morbiditat
Estudi de casos
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases
Catalonia
Morbidity
Case studies
Issue Date: 6-Mar-2018
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Clinical management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) shows potential for improvement provided that patients' heterogeneities are better understood. The study addresses the impact of comorbidities and its role in health risk assessment. OBJECTIVE: To explore the potential of health registry information to enhance clinical risk assessment and stratification. DESIGN: Fixed cohort study including all registered patients with COPD in Catalonia (Spain) (7.5 million citizens) at 31 December 2014 with 1-year (2015) follow-up. METHODS: A total of 264 830 patients with COPD diagnosis, based on the International Classification of Diseases (Ninth Revision) coding, were assessed. Performance of multiple logistic regression models for the six main dependent variables of the study: mortality, hospitalisations (patients with one or more admissions; all cases and COPD-related), multiple hospitalisations (patients with at least two admissions; all causes and COPD-related) and users with high healthcare costs. Neither clinical nor forced spirometry data were available. RESULTS: Multimorbidity, assessed with the adjusted morbidity grouper, was the covariate with the highest impact in the predictive models, which in turn showed high performance measured by the C-statistics: (1) mortality (0.83), (2 and 3) hospitalisations (all causes: 0.77; COPD-related: 0.81), (4 and 5) multiple hospitalisations (all causes: 0.80; COPD-related: 0.87) and (6) users with high healthcare costs (0.76). Fifteen per cent of individuals with highest healthcare costs to year ratio represented 59% of the overall costs of patients with COPD. CONCLUSIONS: The results stress the impact of assessing multimorbidity with the adjusted morbidity grouper on considered health indicators, which has implications for enhanced COPD staging and clinical management.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017283
It is part of: BMJ Open, 2018, vol. 8, num. 3, p. e017283
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/156497
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017283
ISSN: 2044-6055
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