Asthma severity and cost-effectiveness of program
Submitted by Dorothy Vura-Weis on 19 March 2013 - 3:10pm
Dr. Dearborn: You mentioned including patients in your program who had asthma hospitalizations AND were on Xolair. What percent of your patients generally require Xolair? If you included only those with hospitalizations, is the prograjm still cost-effective? Thank you.
Dorr Dearborn
19 March 2013 - 3:40pm
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In our Peds Pulmonary
In our Peds Pulmonary specialty practice, we only have about 20 patients on Xolair--at our children's hospital where we have ~500 hospitalizations per year. Our apparent cost-effectiveness comes only from our hospitalizations experience in that we are just now also targeting the Xolair patients.