Health care costs associated with Australian tertiary inflammatory bowel disease care

Introduction: We aimed to describe the total costs of illness for IBD patients and compare the costs of patients with active disease to those with inactive disease.Materials and methods: Resource use for IBD management was itemized for attributable costs (AUD) among all IBD patients over a 12-month period at an Australian hospital.Results: One hundred and eighty-three patients were included (87 ulcerative colitis (UC); 93 Crohn’s disease (CD);...