Patterns of care for glaucoma patients in Korea from 2002 to 2013 using the national health insurance service claims data

Medicine
Seulggie ChoiDonghyun Jee

Abstract

Due to the rapidly increasing life-expectancy, the prevalence of glaucoma has increased steadily in recent years. We aimed to evaluate the patterns of care and primary treatment strategy patterns in Korea according to glaucoma subtypes to assess the quality of care for glaucoma patients.In this serial cross-sectional survey, the claims data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service was used to identify and group glaucoma patients into primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG), other types of glaucoma, and ocular hypertension from 2002 to 2013. Records for outpatient visits, hospitalizations, drug prescriptions, admissions, and surgical interventions were used to determine the patterns of care and identify primary treatment strategies.Both the prevalence (0.11% in 2002 to 0.43% in 2013) and incidence rates (0.06% in 2003 to 0.11% in 2013) for glaucoma increased over time. The mean number of outpatient visits increased (4.9-6.0 visits per year), while the proportion of hospitalized patients (2.3-1.0% of patients) and duration of hospital stay (4.5-3.4 days among hospitalized patients) decreased between 2002 and 2013 for patients with POAG. The proportion of patients not being managed by med...Continue Reading

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