Healthcare Costs and Workloss Burden of Patients with Chemotherapy-Associated Peripheral Neuropathy in Breast, Ovarian, Head and Neck, and Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer
Table 3
Three-month per-capita baseline resource use and healthcare costs of CAPN cases and non-CAPN controls.
(A) Main Sample: no diabetes
(B) Diabetes Sample
Cases
Controls
-valuea
Cases
Controls
-valuea
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
454
454
71
71
Resource use rate
Hospitalizations
204
45%
193
43%
0.4692
43
61%
33
46%
0.1138
ED visits
75
17%
68
15%
0.5139
21
30%
16
23%
0.3980
Outpatient visits
444
98%
445
98%
0.8185
71
100%
70
99%
0.8185
Oncology
188
41%
174
38%
0.3408
26
37%
30
42%
0.4795
Neurology
22
5%
11
2%
0.0482
5
7%
1
1%
0.1025
Resource use amount
Mean
(SD)
Mean
(SD)
-valuea
Mean
(SD)
Mean
(SD)
-valuea
Hospitalizations
1.96
(5.53)
1.48
(3.21)
0.0956
3.48
(5.02)
4.10
(9.75)
0.5702
ED visits
0.24
(0.70)
0.21
(0.58)
0.3550
0.41
(0.73)
0.35
(0.76)
0.6310
Outpatient visits
11.37
(6.80)
11.25
(7.40)
0.7449
12.80
(6.08)
11.28
(6.76)
0.1420
Oncology
1.40
(3.06)
1.33
(3.47)
0.6673
1.38
(3.10)
1.44
(2.97)
0.9040
Neurology
0.06
(0.31)
0.03
(0.22)
0.0848
0.07
(0.26)
0.01
(0.12)
0.1029
Total costs
$17,797
($22,255)
$17,180
($25,240)
0.6698
$22,308
($24,970)
$21,061
($22,748)
0.6898
Drug costs
$433
($857)
$467
($1,148)
0.6064
$800
($868)
$646
($824)
0.2761
Medical costs
$17,363
($22,185)
$16,712
($25,140)
0.6527
$21,508
($24,871)
$20,415
($22,636)
0.7268
Inpatient
$6,496
($19,301)
$5,928
($21,811)
0.6632
$11,220
($22,256)
$9,382
($21,412)
0.4845
ED
$127
($826)
$102
($576)
0.6043
$125
($290)
$122
($340)
0.9490
Outpatient
$10,336
($10,186)
$10,328
($10,282)
0.9900
$9,725
($8,672)
$10,358
($9,840)
0.6935
Oncology
$438
($1,329)
$439
($1,796)
0.9841
$379
($996)
$431
($1,452)
0.7989
Neurology
$10
($61)
$9
($108)
0.8812
$24
($163)
$1
($7)
0.2435
CAPN indicates chemotherapy-associated peripheral neuropathy; SD, standard deviation; ED, emergency department.
a-values are determined using McNemar tests for proportions and paired -tests for continuous measures.
