Background: Naturalistic studies regarding clinical outcomes associated with antidepressant treatment duration have yielded conflicting results, possibly because they did not consider the occurrence of treatment changes. This nation-wide population-based study examined the association between the number of filled prescriptions and treatment changes and long-term psychiatric outcomes after antidepressant treatment initiation.
Methods: Based on the French national health insurance database, 842,175 adults who initiated an antidepressant treatment in 2011 were included.
Med Care
September 2022
Background: Identifying the most frequently treated and the costliest health conditions is essential for prioritizing actions to improve the resilience of health systems.
Objectives: Healthcare Expenditures and Conditions Mapping describes the annual economic burden of 58 health conditions to prepare the French Social Security Funding Act and the Public Health Act.
Design: Annual cross-sectional study (2015-2019) based on the French national health database.
Background: Cancer patients have one of the highest health care expenditures (HCE) at the end of life. However, the growth of HCE at the end of life remains poorly documented in the literature.
Objective: To describe monthly reimbursed expenditure during the last year of life among cancer patients, by performing detailed analysis according to type of expenditure and the person's age.
Health care utilization of women with breast cancer (BC) during the last year of life, together with the causes and place of death and associated expenditure have been poorly described. Women treated for BC (2014-2015) with BC as a cause of death in 2015 and covered by the national health insurance general scheme (77% of the population) were identified in the French health data system (n = 6,696, mean age: 68.7 years, SD ± 15).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the improvement in the management of diabetes and its complications based on the evolution of hospitalisation rates for diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) and lower extremity amputation (LEA) in individuals with diabetes in France.
Methods: Data were provided by the French national health insurance general scheme from 2008 to 2014. Hospitalisations for DFU and LEA were extracted from the SNIIRAM/SNDS French medical and administrative database.
Objective: To describe, based on the French National Health Insurance (NHI) data, time trends in diabetes medications after treatment initiation in two consecutive cohorts of people newly treated for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 2008 (1st cohort) and 2013 (2nd cohort).
Materials And Methods: People, aged 45 years and older, newly treated for T2D in 2008 and 2013 were identified in the French NHI Data System. Treatment changes were collected for each year of follow-up.
The objective of this population-based study was to identify factors associated with insulin pump therapy initiation in adults with insulin-requiring diabetes in France in 2015. People with insulin-requiring diabetes and their characteristics were identified from the national health data system. Factors associated with insulin pump therapy initiation were identified by logistic regression analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRanking antidepressants according to their acceptability (i.e. a combination of both efficacy and tolerability) in the general population may help choosing the best first-line medication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Health care utilization of people with lung cancer (LC) the last year of life, their causes of death and place of death and the associated expenditure have been poorly described together. Then we conducted an observational study.
Methods: People with LC covered by the French health Insurance general scheme (77% of the population) who died in 2015 were identified in the national health data system, together with their health care utilization and, in 95% of cases, their causes of death.
Purpose: The management of cancer patients at the end of life in France and their causes of death are not well known.
Methods: People managed for cancer in 2014-2015, who died in 2015 and who were covered by the national health insurance general scheme (77% of the French population) were selected from the national health data system in order to analyze the health care reimbursed during the year and the month before their death.
Results: This study included 125,497 people (mean age 73 years, SD 12.
Background: Little is known regarding healthcare for cancer patients treated mainly at home during the month before they die. The aim of this study was to provide information on how they were treated and what were their causes of death.
Methods: This population-based observational study analysing information obtained from the French national healthcare data system (SNDS) included adult health insurance beneficiaries treated for cancer who died in 2015 after having spent at least 25 of their last 30 days at home.
The care pathway of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) 1 year prior to death, their causes of death and the healthcare use, and associated expenditure remain poorly described together. People managed for CRC (2014-2015), covered by the national health insurance general scheme and who died in 2015 were selected from the national health data system. A total of 15 361 individuals (mean age: 75 years, SD: 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Concerns are rising about the late adverse events following gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. We aimed to assess, over a 7-year period, the late adverse events after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy compared with matched control groups.
Methods: In this nationwide, observational, population-based, cohort study, we used data extracted from the French National Health Insurance (Système National des Données de Santé) database.
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be responsible for alteration in quality of life and economic burden. The aim of this study was to evaluate healthcare use related to this disorder in France.
Methods: The French health data system was used to select adults covered by the general health scheme (87% of population) through their first IBS hospitalization in 2015.
Bull Cancer
June 2019
Introduction: This study describes the characteristics, management and outcome of patients one year after a diagnosis of renal cancer, according to the presence of a history of another tumour and metastases at diagnosis or during the first year.
Methods: Based on information from the national health data system (SNDS), 10,989 general scheme beneficiaries (>15 years) with a first hospital stay in 2015 for renal cancer were divided into groups according to the presence of a history of another tumour or metastases.
Results: In this cohort of 10,989 people (75 years and older: 30%, men: 65%), 12% had a history of another tumour diagnosed during the two years before and 22% presented one or more metastases at the time of the index hospitalisation or during the following year.
Epidemiology of type 1 diabetes and its complications. The prevalence of type 1 diabetes in adult is estimated at 0.3 to 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Antibiotic resistance is a serious and increasing worldwide threat to global public health. One of antibiotic stewardship programmes' objectives are to reduce inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics' prescription. Selective reporting of antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) results, which consists of reporting to prescribers only few (n=5-6) antibiotics, preferring first-line and narrow-spectrum agents, is one possible strategy advised in recommendations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOnly limited data are available in France on the incidence and health expenditure of type 2 diabetes. The objective of this study, based on national health insurance administrative database, is to describe the expenditure reimbursed to patients newly treated for type 2 diabetes and the proportion of expenditure attributable to diabetes. The study is conducted over a 6-year period from 2008, the year of incidence of treated diabetes, to 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: In the French national health insurance information system (SNDS) three diabetes case definition algorithms are applied to identify diabetic patients. The objective of this study was to validate those using data from a large cohort.
Methods: The CONSTANCES cohort (Cohorte des consultants des Centres d'examens de santé) comprises a randomly selected sample of adults living in France.
Objective: The objective of the study was to develop and validate two outcome-specific morbidity indices in a population-based setting: the Mortality-Related Morbidity Index (MRMI) predictive of all-cause mortality and the Expenditure-Related Morbidity Index (ERMI) predictive of health care expenditure.
Study Design And Setting: A cohort including all beneficiaries of the main French health insurance scheme aged 65 years or older on December 31, 2013 (N = 7,672,111), was randomly split into a development population for index elaboration and a validation population for predictive performance assessment. Age, gender, and selected lists of conditions identified through standard algorithms available in the French health insurance database (SNDS) were used as predictors for 2-year mortality and 2-year health care expenditure in separate models.
Objective: This study was designed to further our knowledge of the management of pregnant women based on the national health data system (SNDS).
Material And Methods: Women covered by the national health insurance general scheme or a local mutualist section, who delivered in 2015.
Results: Among the 672,182 women included (mean age: 31 years, SD 5.
Background: Only limited data are available concerning the diseases managed before death and hospital palliative care (HPC) use according to place of death in France. We therefore conducted an observational study based on administrative health data in a large population to identify the diseases treated one year before death in 2013, the place of stay with or without hospital palliative care, and the place of death.
Methods: French health insurance general scheme beneficiaries were identified in the National Health data Information System (Snds) with a selection of information.
Importance: Few large-scale long-term prospective cohort studies have assessed changes in antidiabetes treatment after bariatric surgery.
Objective: To describe the association between bariatric surgery and rates of continuation, discontinuation, or initiation of antidiabetes treatment 6 years after bariatric surgery compared with a matched control obese group.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This nationwide observational population-based cohort study extracted health care reimbursement data from the French national health insurance database from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2015.
Eur J Clin Pharmacol
January 2018
Purpose: Changes in prescribing practices following skilled nursing home (SNH) admission have not been clearly described in France. The study aimed to evaluate health status and drug use 1 year before and 1 year after admission to SNH.
Method: People ≥ 65 years old admitted to SNH in the first quarter of 2013, covered by the national health insurance general scheme (69% of the population of this age) and still alive 1 year after admission were identified in a specific database (Resid-ehpad).
Background: Frail older people with multiple interacting conditions, polypharmacy, and complex care needs are particularly exposed to health care-related adverse events. Among these, anticoagulant-related thromboembolic and hemorrhagic events are particularly frequent and serious in older inpatients. The growing use of anticoagulants in this population and their substantial risk of toxicity and inefficacy have therefore become an important patient safety and public health concern worldwide.
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