ArticleTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology2018
Increasing trend in admission rates and costs for acute diverticulitis during 2005-2015: real-life data from the Abruzzo Region.
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- The Trends of Complicated Acute Colonic Diverticulitis-A Systematic Review of the National Administrative Databases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Pooled it
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- The DIVIPACT cohort profile: Evaluating the impact of colonic diverticulosis on daily life.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025Article
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- Management of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis and adherence to current guidelines-a multicentre SNAPSHOT study.International journal of colorectal disease · 2024Article
- Trends in Diverticular Disease Hospitalizations and Racial Disparities in Outcomes Across the United States.Cureus · 2024Article
- The role of infectious parameters in the early prediction of complicated colonic diverticulitis.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2024Article
- Association of Cost Sharing With Delayed and Complicated Presentation of Acute Appendicitis or Diverticulitis.JAMA health forum · 2021Article
- Risk factors and incidence of 90-day readmission for diverticulitis after an acute diverticulitis index admission.International journal of colorectal disease · 2021Article
- A comparison of diverticulitis in Crohn's diseaseJGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2019Article
- Diverticular disease epidemiology: acute hospitalisations are growing fastest in young men.Techniques in coloproctology · 2019Article
- Antibiotics in Uncomplicated Diverticulitis: Are we Aligning With the Evidence? A Retrospective Two-Centre Study.ANZ journal of surgeryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundScarce data are available on the epidemiological trend of diverticulitis and its financial burden in Italy. The aim of this work was to explore a potential variation in the rate and costs of hospital admissions for uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis over the last decade.
methodsWe selected all hospitalizations for diverticulitis of residents in the Abruzzo Region, Italy between 2005 and 2015. Age-standardized hospitalization rates (HRs) per 100,000 inhabitants for overall, uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis were calculated. A linear model on the log of the age-standardized rates was used to calculate annual percentage changes (APC). Costs were derived from the official DRG tariff.
resultsFrom 2005 to 2015, the HR for acute diverticulitis increased from 38.9 to 45.2 per 100,000 inhabitants (APC + 1.9%). The HR for complicated diverticulitis increased from 5.9 to 13.3 (APC + 7.6%), whereas it remained stable for uncomplicated diverticulitis. The mean hospital cost was 1.8-times higher for complicated diverticulitis compared with that for uncomplicated disease and 3.5-times higher for patients with a surgery stay compared with that for patients with a medical stay.
conclusionDuring the last decade, in the Abruzzo Region, the HRs for diverticulitis and their costs increased significantly, mainly due to disease complications. Further studies are needed to explore strategies to prevent complications and to realise cost-saving policies.
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