Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/285290 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Health Economics Review [ISSN:] 2191-1991 [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 53 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-9
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Background: Managing type 2 diabetes represents a major public health concern due to its important and increasing prevalence. Our study investigates the impact of taking incretin-based medication on the risk of being hospitalized and the length of hospital stay for individuals with type 2 diabetes. Method: We use claim panel data from 2011 to 2015 and provide difference-in-differences (DID) estimations combined with matching techniques to better ensure the treatment and control groups' comparability. Our propensity score selects individuals according to their probability of taking an incretin-based treatment in 2013 (N=2,116). The treatment group includes individuals benefiting from incretin-based treatments from 2013 to 2015 and is compared to individuals not benefiting from such a treatment but having a similar probability of taking it. Results: After controlling for health-related and socio-economic variables, we show that benefiting from an incretinbased treatment does not significantly impact the probability of being hospitalized but does significantly decrease the annual number of days spent in the hospital by a factor rate of 0.621 compared with the length of hospital stays for patients not benefiting from such a treatment. Conclusion: These findings highlight the potential implications for our health care system in case of widespread use of these drugs among patients with severe diabetes
Subjects: 
Diabetes
Drug assessment
Hospital use
Quasi-experiment
Observational data
JEL: 
I10
D61
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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