Hospital Costs
EVENTS, DISEASE, EVENT
For each study participant, hospital episodes were defined using the hospital admissions data during follow‐up; hospital admissions with overlapping lengths of stay were combined. For UK perspective, hospital episodes were mapped to Healthcare Resource GroupsTo evaluate the immediate and longer‐term impacts of new key disease events on hospital costs, hierarchical temporal event history categories were generated for each year of follow‐up in the study with respect of the first occurrence of events of each type since randomization. These temporal categories were no new event, new event occurred 