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Patients with coronary artery disease after acute myocardial infarction: Effects of continuous enrollment in a structured Disease Management Program on adherence to guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures, and survival.
Eur. J. Health Econ. 21, 607–619 (2020)
Objective: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) carries increased risk of mortality and excess costs. Disease Management Programs (DMPs) providing guideline-recommended care for chronic diseases seem an intuitively appealing way to enhance health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions such as AMI. The aim of the study is to compare adherence to guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures and survival of patients enrolled and not enrolled in the German DMP for coronary artery disease (CAD) after an AMI from the perspective of a third-party payer over a follow-up period of 3 years. Methods: The study is based on routinely collected data from a regional statutory health insurance fund (n = 15,360). A propensity score matching with caliper method was conducted. Afterwards guideline-recommended medication, health care expenditures, and survival between patients enrolled and not enrolled in the DMP were compared with generalized linear and Cox proportional hazard models. Results: The propensity score matching resulted in 3870 pairs of AMI patients previously and continuously enrolled and not enrolled in the DMP. In the 3-year follow-up period the proportion of days covered rates for ACE-inhibitors (60.95% vs. 58.92%), anti-platelet agents (74.20% vs. 70.66%), statins (54.18% vs. 52.13%), and β-blockers (61.95% vs. 52.64%) were higher in the DMP group. Besides that, DMP participants induced lower health care expenditures per day (€58.24 vs. €72.72) and had a significantly lower risk of death (HR: 0.757). Conclusion: Previous and continuous enrollment in the DMP CAD for patients after AMI is a promising strategy as it enhances guideline-recommended medication, reduces health care expenditures and the risk of death.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Ami ; Dmp Cad ; Guideline-based Medication ; Health Care Expenditures ; Survival
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1618-7598
e-ISSN
1618-7601
Quellenangaben
Volume: 21,
Pages: 607–619
Publisher
Springer
Publishing Place
Berlin ; Heidelberg
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Peer reviewed