NCT02750189

The Economic Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) in South Korea

The Economic Burden of Patients With COPD in South Korea

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 390 (actual)
• Sponsor: Konkuk University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to estimate a direct/indirect medical cost and to provide evidence establishing efficient strategies to reduce medical costs of COPD in Korea.

Detailed description

This study is a multi-center research on economic burdens of COPD for a year. It is composed of three phases detailed as follow. Phase 1: Direct Cost Estimation in COPD patients (N = 400) Direct cost determined as amount of money expended to medical institutes for treatment. Estimated costs, based on the information from Health insurance review agency(HIRA) and The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data, are collected. Phase 2: Indirect cost Estimation by Sampling Survey in COPD patient Indirect cost is extra-expanses excluding hospital fees, including cost for transportation, medical instruments, home care services and loss of labor capacity reduction. The information was collected by structured questionnaire for 12 weeks. Phase 3: Direct/Indirect cost is validated and analyzed based on the collected information from phase 1 and 2 according to severity defined by the GOLD guideline.

Conditions

• COPD
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Direct cost	Money spent to treat COPD in medical institute based on HIRA
OTHER	Indirect cost	extra-expanses excluding hospital fees

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2016-04-25
• Last updated: 2017-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea