The Impact of Intestinal Complications on Health Care Costs Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treated With Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapies.
David T RubinJenny GriffithQisu ZhangZsolt HeppAllison KeshishianPublished in: Inflammatory bowel diseases (2022)
These results suggest that anti-TNF treatment after, rather than before, a patient develops complications leads to a higher economic burden. However, these findings could also result from patients with more severe disease having early complications that are more difficult to treat.