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  • Title: [Influence of the difference in the pollen count on medical costs in an allergen-specific immunotherapy for Japanese cedar pollinosis].
    Author: Yuta A, Miyamoto Y, Hattori R, Ogihara H, Takeuchi K, Majima Y.
    Journal: Arerugi; 2007 Nov; 56(11):1366-71. PubMed ID: 18059149.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: We studied medical economic efficacy and influence by the different number of pollen scattering in patients treated with allergen-specific immunotherapy for Japanese cedar pollinosis. METHODS: We calculated medical treatment costs and the medicine expense from medical records in eighteen cedar pollinosis patients treated with allergen-specific immunotherapy (IT-G) and with medications (M-G). We examined with the same patients for three years of different pollen scattering, mass scattering year (2005), moderate scattering year (2003), a few scattering year (2004). Furthermore, satisfaction of treatment and symptom score measured by visual analog scale in both subjects was studied in a mass scattering year. RESULTS: Total medical costs at hospital was cheaper in IT-G than in M-G. The result was depended on prescribed medical costs. In addition, prescribed medicine agents and total medical costs did not increase by the mass scattering year of pollen. Satisfaction of treatment and symptom score in IT-G was better than that in M-G. CONCLUSION: Immunotherapy had a benefit on a medical economy.
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