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Aim: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common clinical problem that has both high morbidity and mortality and creates an economic burden for health systems, hospitals and health insurances. The annual incidence of VTE, which is accompanied by deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PTE), is estimated as 1-2 cases per 1000 people. The annual incidence for pulmonary embolism is 23 cases per 100,000 patients. Serious complications such as recurrent thromboembolism, post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) increase the burden of managing VTE. Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) is generally used as an anticoagulant therapy in the treatment and prevention of VTE. The aim of this study was to determine the treatment costs of Venous Thromboembolism, Pulmonary Embolism, Deep Vein Thrombosis and to determine the economic burden that Low Molecular Weight Heparin, a preventive anticoagulant treatment, brings to a health insurance or hospital.
Yöntem: In the study, systematic review analysis was used in the selection of the articles reported for the determination of economic burden. All studies addressing the direct/indirect costs of VTE, DVT, PE or both according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and reporting the costs of anticagulant therapy used to prevent these complications were discussed. Selected studies are prospective observational studies or retrospective studies, systematic review studies. One of the steps followed during systematic compilation is database scanning. 1659 articles determined by database scans: 119 articles were determined in WOS, 263 in Scopus, 323 in Pubmed, and 954 in Science Direct. As a result of the extraction of articles with no open access and duplicate articles, a total of 262 articles, 113 articles not related to the research topic and 72 articles that are not suitable for the research purpose, 77 articles were evaluated for suitability. A total of 35 studies were examined as a result of 42 articles excluded according to their full text.
Bulgular: In the studies reported in this study, the average annual cost for VTE has reached a minimum of $503,322, and in case of re-hospitalization, a maximum of $86,744. While the cost of VTE in the USA varies between ($3,000 - $9,500), it is seen to be between $2,215 and $4,430 in Europe. The economic burden of the reported articles was handled from the perspective of the hospital and the health insurance perspective. In researches that report costs from both the hospital perspective and the health insurance perspective, it has been observed that costs vary depending on whether they are repeated during the follow-up period, applied to private hospitals, whether the case is primary or secondary, or re-hospitalization. When the costs of inpatient care are evaluated within the framework of a health plan, the average cost of VTE is high, as is the private insurance, to the payer according to the recurrence status during the follow-up period. In addition, the cost of re-hospitalization in hospitalized patients was $32,860, those who did not re-hospitalize were $32,178, in the case of outpatient hospitalization, it was determined to be $22,693, and in the absence of re-hospitalization, it was found to be $22,299. The drug cost of VTE has reached $4,142 in patients who have reoccupied. The annual average costs for PE ranged from a minimum of $3,758 to a maximum of $23,050, and the cost varied between $13,018 and $16,644 depending on whether the event was recurrent admission or whether the event was primary diagnosis or secondary diagnosis. The average annual costs for DVT ($3,740.48-$26,292), and the total costs cause a minimum of $1,095 to $10,758, and in the case of PE accompanying DVT, total annual costs ($12,200-$30,404). The purchase cost of DMAH was found to be on average ($127-$211.7) in calculations made over a 7-day dose.
Conclusion: The costs for the treatment of VTE have increased significantly, and hospitalization times in the USA, European countries and Canada have been prolonged. Therefore, it is difficult to make direct comparisons. In addition, there are very few studies in countries other than the USA and small samples and different methodologies of the studies are making this difficult to measure. All this constitutes the limitation of this research. VTE treatment, prevention and difficulties for determining the incidence is seen in Turkey. In Turkey, VTE, DVT, PE and DVT / PE related difficulties in the national incidence of the lack of measurement of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and diagnosis, examination of the patient only the hospitalized, only the examination of elderly patients, frequent autopsy cases so as to be included in the incidence figures do not get, or autopsy. Various causes cause problems in determining the actual incidence measurements. The scarcity of studies in this area forms the basis of this study. Differences in the clinical guidelines and treatment schemes of countries cause difficulties in calculating costs. However, exposing the costs of complications such as VTE, DVT, PE, which are a very specific issue, is extremely important for the determination of the economic burden on health systems, hospitals and health insurances. The results obtained from this research are important in terms of comparing VTE attacks and current antiguacogulant treatment options applied for the prevention of recurrent VTE, and will provide a significant benefit in estimating the impact of hospitals and health insurance budgets. Due to the lack of future research at the national level to the incidence and prevalence research VT, evaluating the planning of research on a national level in determining the true incidence of VTE and the extremely high efficiency of the cost of drugs used in the treatment of this complication in Turkey, patients of these complications, health insurance, brought the health system Various researches are proposed to determine and alleviate the economic burden.