Use of hospital care among Dutch diabetes patients
Authors' conclusion
The hospital resource use of Dutch diabetes patients is high, with a large burden of cardiovascular complications. Resource use is rooted mainly in hospital care of diabetes-related complications, not in the treatment of diabetes. Early treatment and prevention of complications remain imperative to taper future healthcare expenditure on patients with diabetes.
Study context
- Population
- Patients aged ≥18 years treated for DM in 65 Dutch hospitals, 2019 to 2020
- Participants
- 193,840 patients
- Outcome
- Healthcare resource utilization and hospital expenditure (consultations, hospitalizations, technology use, total hospital and diabetes care costs)
- Follow-up
- 1-year follow-up
Methodological detailsreal-world reimbursement data, 65 hospitals
- Real-world reimbursement data
- 65 hospitals
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hospital costs · per year
- Total hospital costs for all patients with diabetes per year
- €1 352 690 257 (1.35 billion)
- Share associated with treatment of diabetes
- 15.9% (€214 963 703)
- Mean yearly costs per patient
- €6978
- Mean diabetes care costs per patient
- €1109
- Mean hospital costs vs Dutch population
- three- to sixfold
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Costs by age
- Diabetes expenditure, 18-40 years
- €1575
- Diabetes expenditure, >70 years
- €932
- Total hospital costs increased with age, diabetes expenditure decreased with age
Cardiovascular complications
- Received care related to cardiovascular complications
- 51.3% (n = 99 457)
Vascular complications and hospital costs
- Micro- and macrovascular complications, or a combination, increased hospital costs
- 1.4-5.3 times higher
Original publication
Use of hospital care among Dutch diabetes patients. Diabetes Obes Metab. Published 8 May 2023. doi:10.
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