TY  - JOUR
A1  - Aygören-Pürsün, Emel
A1  - Bygum, Anette
A1  - Beusterien, Kathleen
A1  - Hautamaki, Emily
A1  - Sisic, Zlatko
A1  - Wait, Suzanne
A1  - Boysen, Henrik B.
A1  - Caballero, Teresa
T1  - Socioeconomic burden of hereditary angioedema : results from the hereditary angioedema burden of illness study in Europe
T2  - Orphanet journal of rare diseases
N2  - Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) due to C1 inhibitor deficiency is a rare but serious and potentially life-threatening disease marked by spontaneous, recurrent attacks of swelling. The study objective was to characterize direct and indirect resource utilization associated with HAE from the patient perspective in Europe.
Methods: The study was conducted in Spain, Germany, and Denmark to assess the real-world experience of HAE via a cross-sectional survey of HAE patients, including direct and indirect resource utilization during and between attacks for patients and their caregivers over the past 6 months. A regression model examined predictors of medical resource utilization.
Results: Overall, 164 patients had an attack in the past 6 months and were included in the analysis. The most significant predictor of medical resource utilization was the severity of the last attack (OR 2.6; p < 0.001). Among patients who sought medical care during the last attack (23%), more than half utilized the emergency department. The last attack prevented patients from their normal activities an average of 4-12 hours. Patient and caregiver absenteeism increased with attack severity and frequency. Among patients who were working or in school (n = 120), 72 provided work/school absenteeism data, resulting in an estimated 20 days missing from work/school on average per year; 51% (n = 84) indicated that HAE has hindered their career/educational advancement.
Conclusion: HAE poses a considerable burden on patients and their families in terms of direct medical costs and indirect costs related to lost productivity. This burden is substantial at the time of attacks and in between attacks.
KW  - hereditary angioedema
KW  - burden of illness
KW  - resource utilization
KW  - productivity
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34685
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-346853
SN  - 1750-1172
N1  - © 2014 Aygören-Pürsün et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 9
IS  - 99
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -