NDLI: Diagnostic groups of hospital stays and outpatient visits during 10 years before Alzheimer’s disease

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Author	Mäklin, Kiira Lampela, Pasi Lin, Julian Sirpa, Hartikainen Tolppanen, Anna-Maija
Abstract	Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major determinant of healthcare costs and increase in the healthcare service use occur already before the AD diagnosis. However, little is known how the different diagnosis categories contribute to this increase in healthcare use. We investigated how the hospitalizations and specialized healthcare outpatient visits from different diagnosis categories, based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) chapters, contribute to increased specialized healthcare service use during ten-year period preceding AD diagnosis. Methods A register-based nationwide cohort of 42,934 community-dwelling persons who received clinically verified AD diagnosis in between 2008 and 2011 in Finland and 1:1 age, sex and hospital district- matched comparison cohort were included. Hospitalizations and specialized healthcare visits were categorized by the main diagnosis, according to the ICD-10 chapters. AD and dementia were separated to their own category. The number of persons with visits and stays was calculated for every 6 months, irrespective of the frequency of visits/stays individual had during that time window. Furthermore, the relative distribution of the diagnosis categories was computed. Results AD cohort was more likely to have visits and stays during the 10-year period (OR 1.19, 95% CI 1.17–1.21). The number of persons with visits and stays peaked in AD cohort from 1.5 years before the diagnosis when the differences in relative distribution of different diagnosis categories also became evident. The largest differences were observed for visits/stays with cognitive disorders, symptoms of unspecified diseases and psychiatric disorders diagnoses, and those with missing diagnosis codes in the last time window before AD diagnosis. Conclusions and implications Increased healthcare service use before AD diagnosis does not seem to arise from differences in specific diagnosis categories of ICD-10 such as diseases of the circulatory system, but from the higher frequency of visits and stays among persons with AD across diagnosis categories. Based on the relative distribution of diagnosis categories, the steep increase in healthcare service use just before and during the diagnostic process is likely due to prodromal symptoms and visits related to cognition.
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ISSN	14726963
DOI	10.1186/s12913-023-09345-3
Journal	BMC Health Services Research
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	23
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2023-04-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Health Administration Health Informatics Nursing Research Alzheimer’s disease Healthcare use Hospitalizations Comorbidities
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Policy

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