Zusammenfassung
Die vorliegende Krankheitskostenstudie fokussiert auf die Kosten, die aktuell bei
der Behandlung von Patienten mit COPD (chronische obstruktive Lungenkrankheit) entstehen.
In einer Vorstudie wurden die Daten von 814 zufällig ausgewählten Patienten retrospektiv
erhoben, um die Verteilung der COPD-Schweregrade und Häufigkeiten von Exazerbationen
zu ermitteln. In der Hauptstudie wurde der Ressourcenverbrauch von 321 zufällig aus
der Vorstudie ausgewählten Patienten erhoben und die Kosten für jeden Schweregrad
berechnet. Die Gesamtkosten der COPD wurden durch die Gewichtung der Kosten pro Schweregrad
ermittelt. Aus volkswirtschaftlicher Sicht belaufen sich die durchschnittlichen jährlichen
Kosten im Zusammenhang mit COPD auf € 3027 pro Patient. Krankenhausaufenthalte (26
%), Medikamente (23 %) und Frührente (17 %) verursachten den Hauptteil dieser Kosten.
Aus Sicht der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung lagen die Kosten pro Patient und Jahr
bei € 1944.
Abstract
The present cost-of-illness study is focused on the costs of COPD in Germany. In a
pre-study, data on 814 randomly selected patients were collected to achieve reliable
figures for the distribution of COPD severity grades and the frequencies of exacerbations.
The main study was performed on 321 randomly selected patients from the pre-study.
Data on resource use were collected in a face-to-face interview with the respective
physicians using the patient records as a basis. Costs associated with resource consumption
were weighted with the frequencies of COPD severity grades as assessed in the pre-study
to determine the costs of COPD. Annual COPD-related costs per patient were € 3,027
from the societal perspective. Main cost components were hospitalisations (26 %),
medication (23 %) and early retirement (17 %). Annual COPD-related costs from the
perspective of the German health insurance system (GKV) were € 1,944 per patient.
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Prof. Dr. med. Dennis Nowak
Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität · Institut und Poliklinik für Arbeits-
und Umweltmedizin
Ziemssenstr. 1
80336 München ·
Email: Dennis.Nowak@med.uni-muenchen.de