Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Reports Findings in Information Technology (Current Incidence and Future Projection of Periprosthetic Fractures in South Korea: A Study Based on National Claim Database): Information Technology

2022 FEB 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Information Technology is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Seongnam, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To evaluate the current incidence and economic cost and to estimate the future burden of periprosthetic fracture (PF) after joint arthroplasties in South Korea. This study was a retrospective registry-based study of patients who were diagnosed as periprosthetic fractures (PFs) in South Korea.”

Financial support for this research came from Korea Health Industry Development Institute.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, “Cases of PF from 2010 to 2017 in South Korea using Health Insurance and Review and Assessment (HIRA) database, which contains all medical claims for all South Korean patients, were identified. The operational definitions of PFs were identified from the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) code of the Korean National Health Insurance Program (KHNIP). The annual incidence and medical costs during the period were calculated and the future increase of PF and its cost were projected through 2030 using generalized linear model with quasi-poisson link. During the 8-year period, 14,456 patients were treated due to PFs. The annual number of patients with PF remarkably increased from 1,322 in 2010 to 2,636 in 2017. The increment was prominent in age groups of 70-79 and 80. Total number of patients with PF were 9752 in women and 4704 in men during the study period. Mean personal costs were 1,155.4 USD in women and 1,185.5 USD in men. The total cost of PFs increased from 779,533 USD in 2010 to 3,888,402 USD in 2017. The personal cost of PFs also increased from 589.7 USD in 2010 to 1,475.1 USD in 2017. In 2017, the number of PF patients exponentially increased after 50 years of age especially in women. Estimated with our projection model, the number of PFs will increase by 2.5 times and the cost will increase by 10 times in the next 10 years.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The incidence and cost of PFs are rising and will represent a serious socioeconomic burden in South Korea.”

For more information on this research see: Current Incidence and Future Projection of Periprosthetic Fractures in South Korea: A Study Based on National Claim Database. Orthopaedic Surgery, 2022. Orthopaedic Surgery can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Orthopaedic Surgery - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1757-7861)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Seok-Hyung Won, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Jung-Wee Park, Hong-Seok Kim, Samuel Jaeyoon Won, Young-Kyun Lee and Kyung-Hoi Koo.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/os.13219. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal Orthopaedic Surgery is: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

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