ArticleNeurology. Clinical practice2021
Health Care Utilization and Costs in Patients With Migraine Who Have Failed Previous Preventive Treatments.
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- Exploring the Impact of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Chronic Migraine Relief: A Case Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- Marginal health care expenditures and health-related quality of life burden in patients with migraine.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2024Article
- Real-world Impact of Fremanezumab on Migraine-Related Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients with Comorbidities, Acute Medication Overuse, and/or Unsatisfactory Prior Migraine Preventive Response.Pain and therapy · 2024Article
- Scoping Review: The Effects of Interrupted Onabotulinumtoxin A Treatment for Chronic Migraine Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of erenumab and onabotulinumtoxinA on acute medication usage and health care resource utilization as migraine prevention in the United States.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo characterize health care utilization (HCU) and associated costs among patients with migraine categorized by the number of preventive treatment failures (TFs; 1 TF, 2 TFs, and 3+ TFs) using real-world data.
methodsThis retrospective analysis identified adults with incident migraine diagnosis in the IBM MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Supplemental database between January 1, 2011, and June 30, 2015. TF was defined in the 2 years after the first migraine diagnosis period. One TF, 2 TFs, and 3+ TFs were defined as patients who had received only 2 preventive treatments (PTs), 3 PTs, and 4+ PTs in the 2-year period, respectively. A negative binomial model was used to analyze HCU data, and a 2-part model was used for cost data controlling for the preindex Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index.
resultsOverall, 24,282 patients with incident migraine who had failed at least 1 PT were included in the analysis. Of these, 72.7% (n = 17,653) had 1 TF, 20.2% (n = 4,900) had 2 TFs, and 7.1% (n = 1,729) had 3+ TFs. Adjusted annualized rates of all-cause and migraine-specific HCU increased with an increase in the number of TFs (1.4-4 times higher; all
conclusionsTF in patients with migraine was associated with a substantial resource and cost burden, which increased with the number of TFs.
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