Narcolepsy treatment in Sweden: An observational study.


Journal

Acta neurologica Scandinavica
ISSN: 1600-0404
Titre abrégé: Acta Neurol Scand
Pays: Denmark
ID NLM: 0370336

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Historique:
revised: 02 08 2021
received: 03 05 2021
accepted: 05 09 2021
pubmed: 7 10 2021
medline: 5 1 2022
entrez: 6 10 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

To describe the pharmacological treatments (2005-2017) and the healthcare utilization (1997-2016) for patients with narcolepsy in Sweden in order to create a framework for future organizational and economic analyses. Patients of all ages with a diagnosis of narcolepsy registered in the National Patient Registry in specialist care in Sweden were included and information on treatments for narcolepsy was retrieved from The Swedish Prescribed Drug Register. We collected 2508 patients with narcolepsy, 43,3% men and 56,7% women and 47,9% were prescribed modafenil, 33,8% metylphenidate and 26,2% amphetamine. In total, 3817 treatments were initiated. Patients treated with amphetamine had a higher mean age. More women than men used modafinil, methylphenidate, amphetamine and antidepressants. The narcolepsy population had more outpatient than inpatient healthcare. Patients treated with sodium oxybate had more outpatient visits than other narcolepsy patients, before and during treatment (p = .00). This study gives valuable information on pharmaceutical treatments and healthcare utilization for patients with narcolepsy and can be used to estimate the healthcare cost in the future. Patients with sodium oxybate treatment had more outpatient visits than other patients before and during treatment which may be due to the need to monitor potentially severe side-effects or may indicate that patients with sodium oxybate treatment have a severe disease. The number of included patients was less than expected; however, this may depend on patients escaping our collection of data, which does not contain information from primary care.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34611886
doi: 10.1111/ane.13532
doi:

Substances chimiques

Antidepressive Agents 0
Sodium Oxybate 7G33012534
Modafinil R3UK8X3U3D

Types de publication

Journal Article Observational Study

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

185-192

Subventions

Organisme : UCB

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Authors. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Auteurs

Helena Gauffin (H)

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Division of Neurology, Linköping University Hospital, Region Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden.

Thomas Fast (T)

Institute of Applied Economics and Health Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Centre for Health Economics at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anastasija Komkova (A)

Institute of Applied Economics and Health Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Shala Berntsson (S)

Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Inger Boström (I)

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Anne-Marie Landtblom (AM)

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

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