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Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) requires long-term management and can be a financial burden for patients. Here, we investigated the treatment received by people diagnosed with TMD and its relevant costs. DESIGN: A descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We per...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33115889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-036768 |
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author | Seo, Hyejin Jung, Boyoung Yeo, Jiyoon Kim, Koh-Woon Cho, Jae-Heung Lee, Yoon Jae Ha, In-Hyuk |
author_facet | Seo, Hyejin Jung, Boyoung Yeo, Jiyoon Kim, Koh-Woon Cho, Jae-Heung Lee, Yoon Jae Ha, In-Hyuk |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) requires long-term management and can be a financial burden for patients. Here, we investigated the treatment received by people diagnosed with TMD and its relevant costs. DESIGN: A descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We performed secondary data analysis of health insurance claims data provided by the Health Insurance Assessment and Review (HIRA) of the Republic of Korea. We reviewed the records of 10 041 patients who were diagnosed with TMD and who utilised outpatient healthcare service at least once between January and December 2017. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Data on use of medical services, hospitalisations, sociodemographic factors, treatment and medication were retrieved and analysed. Cost was defined as the cost of care incurred by a health insurance beneficiary at a care facility. RESULTS: We reported the characteristics as medians, frequencies and percentages and found that most TMD patients were outpatients, women (58.9%) and in their 20s (46.4%). For visit type, 85.9% of all patients had an outpatient dental medical visit, with most visiting dental clinics and dental hospitals. Western medicine (WM; 9.8%) was prescribed more often, followed by Korean medicine (KM; 8.2%). The median expense per patient was highest among those in their 20s (58.00, 23.90, 53.40, 65.90 US$ for overall, WM, dental medicine (DM) and KM, respectively). Consultation fees accounted for the greatest percentage (42.8%) of DM and WM care expenses, while injection/non-surgical intervention fees accounted for the greatest percentage of KM care expenses. The most commonly used treatments for TMD were temporomandibular joint stimulation therapy (51.1%) and acupuncture (19.9%), considered as the most basic care for TMD. Psychosomatic agents (86.4%) were the most commonly used medications in outpatients. CONCLUSIONS: While people with TMD most commonly received temporomandibular stimulation therapy, the costs and duration of treatment varied significantly for these patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-75943552020-11-10 Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study Seo, Hyejin Jung, Boyoung Yeo, Jiyoon Kim, Koh-Woon Cho, Jae-Heung Lee, Yoon Jae Ha, In-Hyuk BMJ Open Epidemiology OBJECTIVE: Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) requires long-term management and can be a financial burden for patients. Here, we investigated the treatment received by people diagnosed with TMD and its relevant costs. DESIGN: A descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We performed secondary data analysis of health insurance claims data provided by the Health Insurance Assessment and Review (HIRA) of the Republic of Korea. We reviewed the records of 10 041 patients who were diagnosed with TMD and who utilised outpatient healthcare service at least once between January and December 2017. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Data on use of medical services, hospitalisations, sociodemographic factors, treatment and medication were retrieved and analysed. Cost was defined as the cost of care incurred by a health insurance beneficiary at a care facility. RESULTS: We reported the characteristics as medians, frequencies and percentages and found that most TMD patients were outpatients, women (58.9%) and in their 20s (46.4%). For visit type, 85.9% of all patients had an outpatient dental medical visit, with most visiting dental clinics and dental hospitals. Western medicine (WM; 9.8%) was prescribed more often, followed by Korean medicine (KM; 8.2%). The median expense per patient was highest among those in their 20s (58.00, 23.90, 53.40, 65.90 US$ for overall, WM, dental medicine (DM) and KM, respectively). Consultation fees accounted for the greatest percentage (42.8%) of DM and WM care expenses, while injection/non-surgical intervention fees accounted for the greatest percentage of KM care expenses. The most commonly used treatments for TMD were temporomandibular joint stimulation therapy (51.1%) and acupuncture (19.9%), considered as the most basic care for TMD. Psychosomatic agents (86.4%) were the most commonly used medications in outpatients. CONCLUSIONS: While people with TMD most commonly received temporomandibular stimulation therapy, the costs and duration of treatment varied significantly for these patients. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7594355/ /pubmed/33115889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-036768 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology Seo, Hyejin Jung, Boyoung Yeo, Jiyoon Kim, Koh-Woon Cho, Jae-Heung Lee, Yoon Jae Ha, In-Hyuk Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title | Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title_full | Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title_short | Healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
title_sort | healthcare utilisation and costs for temporomandibular disorders: a descriptive, cross-sectional study |
topic | Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33115889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-036768 |
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