Treatment and Healthcare Cost Among Patients with Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-sectional Study Using a Real-world Claims Database in Japan Between 2013 and 2019.

Background And Objectives: The guidelines for osteoarthritis (OA) treatment recommend different therapies including pharmacotherapy, and several analgesic options are available for pain management. In Japan, research on hip and knee OA treatment trends is scarce and OA-related healthcare costs are unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the treatment and healthcare cost trends among Japanese patients with hip or knee OA.

Cost-Effectiveness of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-Analysis.

Background: Medical costs associated with cardiovascular disease are increasing considerably worldwide; therefore, an efficacious, cost-effective therapy which allows the effective use of medical resources is vital. There have been few economic evaluations of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), especially meta-analyses of medical cost versus patient outcome.

Methods: The target population in this meta-analysis included convalescent and comprehensive CR patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), the status most commonly observed postmyocardial infarction (MI).

Clinical and economic burdens experienced by patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: An observational study using a Japanese claims database.

Background: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) may often be painful. Despite the high prevalence of painful DPN (pDPN) among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), understanding of its clinical and economic burden is limited. This study aimed to describe the clinical and economic burdens faced by patients with pDPN in Japan, and compared them with those experienced by patients with DPN but without painful symptoms (non-pDPN).