A total of 207 children were recorded with reimbursement for palivizumab of which 165 were also recorded in the DNPR.
The reports show no record of reimbursements for any of those expenses.
We used the two data sources available, medical records, and reimbursement data.
First, records from reimbursement claims for postoperative complications, comorbidities, and coexisting medical conditions might be underreported in clinical practice.
The study is based on electronic patient records including reimbursement data, mandatorily comprising diagnoses, so that our analysis seems reliable.
This database contains longitudinal insurance records of reimbursement claims for the years 2003 to 2007, which includes the original claim data of 1000000 beneficiaries.
The NHIRD contains complete medical information regarding patients, including prescription details, diagnoses based on the ICD-9-CM codes, registration files, and original claims records for reimbursement.
Routine data primarily recorded for reimbursement purposes are increasingly being used on a national level both in pharmacoepidemiological studies and in trigger tools.
Data on self-reported diseases were further confirmed by crosschecking the medical records kept by the interviewees, reimbursement records, or by communication and were then coded into categories in accordance with the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (World Health Organization, 2008) [ 28] by trained doctors.
This included, for example, recording the reimbursements as relating to travel, lodging, and even design services.
The EGB database contains records of reimbursements made by the national health insurance for ambulatory care, for a sample of 530,000 subjects, representative of the general population affiliated with the French health insurance system.
