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| Title |
The cost of treating severe refractory asthma in the UK: an economic analysis from the British Thoracic Society Difficult Asthma Registry
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| Published in |
Thorax, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204114 |
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| Authors |
Stephen O'Neill, Joan Sweeney, Chris C Patterson, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Rob Niven, Adel H Mansur, Christine Bucknall, Rekha Chaudhuri, Neil C Thomson, Chris E Brightling, Ciaran O'Neill, Liam G Heaney |
| Abstract |
Severe refractory asthma poses a substantial burden in terms of healthcare costs but relatively little is known about the factors which drive these costs. This study uses data from the British Thoracic Society Difficult Asthma Registry (n=596) to estimate direct healthcare treatment costs from an National Health Service perspective and examines factors that explain variations in costs. Annual mean treatment costs among severe refractory asthma patients were £2912 (SD £2212) to £4217 (SD £2449). Significant predictors of costs were FEV1% predicted, location of care, maintenance oral corticosteroid treatment and body mass index. Treating individuals with severe refractory asthma presents a substantial cost to the health service. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Argentina | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 9 | 69% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 54% |
| Scientists | 3 | 23% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 165 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 165 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 25 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 12% |
| Other | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 22 | 13% |
| Unknown | 51 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 57 | 35% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9 | 5% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 7 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 26 | 16% |
| Unknown | 56 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 May 2018.
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#3,068,847
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Thorax
#1,283
of 5,786 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,225
of 246,844 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Thorax
#16
of 56 outputs
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