アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: The burden of osteoarthritis (OA) in UK primary care has not been investigated thoroughly. AIM: To estimate healthcare use and mortality in people with OA (overall and joint specific). DESIGN AND SETTING: A matched cohort study of adults with an incident diagnosis of OA in primary care were selected for the study using UK national Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) electronic records. METHOD: Healthcare utilisation was measured as the annual average number of primary care consultations and admissions to hospital after the index date for any cause and all-cause mortality data in 221 807 people with OA and an equal number of controls (with no OA diagnosis) who were matched to the case patients by age (standard deviation 2 years), sex, practice, and year of registration. The associations between OA and healthcare utilisation and all-cause mortality were estimated using multinomial logistic regression and Cox regression, respectively, adjusting for covariates. RESULTS: The mean age of the study population was 61 years and 58% were female. In the OA group, the median number of primary care consultations per year after the index date was 10.91 compared with 9.43 in the non-OA control group (P = 0.001) OA was associated with an increased risk of GP consultation and admission to hospital. The adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was 1.89 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.85 to 1.93) for any OA, 2.09 (95% CI = 2.01 to 2.19) for knee OA, 2.08 (95% CI = 1.95 to 2.21) for hip OA, and 1.80 (95% CI = 1.58 to 2.06) for wrist/hand OA, compared with the respective non-OA control group. CONCLUSION: People with OA had increased rates of GP consultations, admissions to hospital, and all-cause mortality that varied across joint sites. |
ジャーナル名 | The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners |
Pubmed追加日 | 2023/7/11 |
投稿者 | Swain, Subhashisa; Coupland, Carol; Sarmanova, Aliya; Kuo, Chang Fu; Mallen, Christian; Doherty, Michael; Zhang, Weiya |
組織名 | Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford,;Oxford, UK; research associate (honorary), School of Medicine, University of;Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.;School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.;Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.;Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital,;Taoyuan City, Taiwan.;School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK.;School of Medicine, University of Nottingham; Pain Centre Versus Arthritis,;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37429733/ |