THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL ECONOMY FROM THE ASPECT OF MEDICAL DIRECT COSTS BY A DIFFERENCE OF THE NUMBER OF THE POLLEN SCATTERING ON AN ALLERGEN-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR JAPANESE CEDAR POLLINOSIS

• Yuta Atsushi

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

• Miyamoto Yukiko

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

• Hattori Reiko

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

• Ogihara Hitomi

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

• Takeuchi Kazuhiko

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

• Majima Yuichi

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• スギ花粉症に対する抗原特異的免疫療法の花粉飛散総数による医療経済効果 : 医療費による直接経費からの検討
• スギ カフンショウ ニ タイスル コウゲン トクイテキ メンエキ リョウホウ ノ カフン ヒサン ソウスウ ニ ヨル イリョウ ケイザイ コウカ イリョウヒ ニ ヨル チョクセツ ケイヒ カラノ ケントウ

Abstract

Background: We studied medical economic efficacy and influence by the different number of pollen scattering in patients treated with allergen-specific immunotherapy for Japanese cedar pollinosis. Methods: We calculated medical treatment costs and the medicine expense from medical records in eighteen cedar pollinosis patients treated with allergen-specific immunotherapy (IT-G) and with medications (M-G). We examined with the same patients for three years of different pollen scattering, mass scattering year (2005), moderate scattering year (2003), a few scattering year (2004). Furthermore, satisfaction of treatment and symptom score measured by visual analog scale in both subjects was studied in a mass scattering year. Results: Total medical costs at hospital was cheaper in IT-G than in M-G. The result was depended on prescribed medical costs. In addition, prescribed medicine agents and total medical costs did not increase by the mass scattering year of pollen. Satisfaction of treatment and symptom score in IT-G was better than that in M-G. Conclusion: Immunotherapy had a benefit on a medical economy.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Allergology

  Japanese Journal of Allergology 56 (11), 1366-1371, 2007

  Japanese Society of Allergology

Keywords

• immunotherapy
• Japanese cedar pollen
• medical economy
• pollinosis

Details

• CRID: 1390282679965468032
• NII Article ID: 110006474345
• NII Book ID: AN00012583
• DOI: 10.15036/arerugi.56.1366
• ISSN: 13477935
• ISSN: 00214884
• NDL BIB ID: 9294282
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/9294282
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I9294282
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2008061846
• Text Lang: ja
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