Healthcare use, work loss and total costs in incident and prevalent Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis : results from a nationwide study in Sweden
Background: There are limited data on population-wide assessment of cost in Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Aim: To estimate the societal cost of actively treated CD and UC in Sweden. Methods: We identified 10 117 prevalent CD and 19 762 prevalent UC patients, aged ≥18 years on 1 January 2014 and 4028 adult incident CD cases and 8659 adult incident UC cases (2010-2013) from Swedi
