Late Breaking Abstract - Economics burden and healthcare utilization in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with or without sepsis

Background: Although sepsis has prognostic implications to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), its economics burden, healthcare utilization remains uncertain. We conducted a population-level study to answer these questions. Methods: We excerpted data relevant to sepsis (ICD-9 coding 995.91, 995.92) from 609,281 patients with COPD (ICD-9 coding 491, 492, 496) and registered by the Taiwan National Health Insurance Administration System between 2010 and 2015. Propensity-score matching was applied to balance the age and gender between patients with or without sepsis. Results: Among them, 13.4%(81,466/609,281) of the COPD patients had been suffered from sepsis. Patients who suffered from sepsis were more likely to have hypertension (64.8% vs. 60.2%, P Conclusions: COPD patients who encountered sepsis were associated with higher economics burden and healthcare utilization.