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The Cost of Crohn's Disease: Varied Health Care Expenditure Patterns Across Distinct Disease Trajectories.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Jan 2017
Rao Bhavana B, Click Benjamin H, Koutroubakis Ioannis E, Ramos Rivers Claudia, Regueiro Miguel, Swoger Jason, Schwartz Marc, Hashash Jana, Barrie Arthur, Dunn Michael A, Binion David G
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BACKGROUND: Patients with Crohn's disease (CD) encompass a heterogeneous disease spectrum, with variable health care utilization and expenditure patterns. Lémann Index (LI) is a metric that quantifies cumulative bowel damage and has shown utility in delineating distinct disease phenotypes. We aimed to characterize the financial burden from all medical care in CD cohort in relation to the variations in LI-based...
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