{"id":5723,"date":"2019-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icesontario.wpengine.com\/journal-articles\/healthcare-resource-utilization-and-costs-among-patients-with-direct-oral-anticoagulant-or-warfarin-related-major-bleeding\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T23:19:45","slug":"healthcare-resource-utilization-and-costs-among-patients-with-direct-oral-anticoagulant-or-warfarin-related-major-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/fr\/publications\/journal-articles\/healthcare-resource-utilization-and-costs-among-patients-with-direct-oral-anticoagulant-or-warfarin-related-major-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare resource utilization and costs among patients with direct oral anticoagulant or warfarin-related major bleeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction <\/strong>&#x2014; Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have expanded the options for antithrombotic therapy. DOAC-related major bleeds are associated with favorable outcomes compared to warfarin in clinical trials and routine practice. However, it is unclear whether management of DOAC-associated major bleeding incurs higher resource utilization and costs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bold\">Materials and Methods<\/span> &#x2014; We screened medical records of patients &#x2265; 66 years with atrial fibrillation admitted to one of five tertiary care hospitals in Ontario, Canada with a hemorrhage. We abstracted bleeds involving DOACs or warfarin and linked them to administrative databases to capture length of hospital stay, blood product use, procedural interventions, intensive care unit (ICU) utilization and related direct medical costs. To control for confounders, multivariate logistic and linear regressions were used for binary and linear outcomes respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results <\/strong>&#x2014; Among 19,061 records screened, 1978 (10.4%) cases involving 1632 patients met criteria of oral anticoagulant-associated bleeding. Baseline characteristics between DOAC and warfarin groups were similar. Blood product costs were higher for DOACs (all comparisons DOACs vs. warfarin, &#x24;1456 vs. &#x24;1109, mean difference &#x24;347, 95% CI &#x24;185 to &#x24;509), but length of stay and ICU use were similar. Mean direct medical costs did not differ (&#x24;9217 vs. &#x24;10,790, adjusted relative ratio 0.94, 95% CI 0.84&#x2013;1.05).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions <\/strong>&#x2014; Prior to introduction of DOAC-specific reversal agents, resource utilization and medical costs were comparable between DOAC- and warfarin-associated major bleeds, despite marginally higher blood product costs incurred by the former. Resource intensity associated with anticoagulant-related bleeding remains high, and our data provide measures for cost-effectiveness evaluation of emerging DOAC antidotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction &#x2014; Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have expanded the options for antithrombotic therapy. DOAC-related major bleeds are associated with favorable outcomes compared to warfarin in clinical trials and routine practice. However, it is unclear whether management of DOAC-associated major bleeding incurs higher resource utilization and costs. Materials and Methods &#x2014; We screened medical records of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-5723","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"citation":"Xu Y, Schulman S, Dowlatshahi D, Holbrook AM, Simpson CS, Shepherd LE, Wells PS, Giulivi A, Gomes T, Mamdani M, Frymire E, Khan S, Johnson AP; Bleeding Effected by Direct Oral Anticoagulants (BLED-AC) Study Group. <em>Thromb Res<\/em>. 2019; 182:12-9. 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Epub 2019 Aug 2. DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.thromres.2019.07.026\" title=\"opens external link\">10.1016\/j.thromres.2019.07.026<\/a>.<\/p>\",\n  \"Abstract\": \"<p><strong>Introduction <\/strong>&mdash; Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have expanded the options for antithrombotic therapy. DOAC-related major bleeds are associated with favorable outcomes compared to warfarin in clinical trials and routine practice. However, it is unclear whether management of DOAC-associated major bleeding incurs higher resource utilization and costs.<\/p>n<p><span class=\"bold\">Materials and Methods<\/span> &mdash; We screened medical records of patients &ge; 66 years with atrial fibrillation admitted to one of five tertiary care hospitals in Ontario, Canada with a hemorrhage. We abstracted bleeds involving DOACs or warfarin and linked them to administrative databases to capture length of hospital stay, blood product use, procedural interventions, intensive care unit (ICU) utilization and related direct medical costs. To control for confounders, multivariate logistic and linear regressions were used for binary and linear outcomes respectively.<\/p>n<p><strong>Results <\/strong>&mdash; Among 19,061 records screened, 1978 (10.4%) cases involving 1632 patients met criteria of oral anticoagulant-associated bleeding. Baseline characteristics between DOAC and warfarin groups were similar. Blood product costs were higher for DOACs (all comparisons DOACs vs. warfarin, $1456 vs. $1109, mean difference $347, 95% CI $185 to $509), but length of stay and ICU use were similar. Mean direct medical costs did not differ ($9217 vs. $10,790, adjusted relative ratio 0.94, 95% CI 0.84&ndash;1.05).<\/p>n<p><strong>Conclusions <\/strong>&mdash; Prior to introduction of DOAC-specific reversal agents, resource utilization and medical costs were comparable between DOAC- and warfarin-associated major bleeds, despite marginally higher blood product costs incurred by the former. 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