Patient-Centered Economic Burden of Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Retrospective Cohort Study

Kyungseon Choi   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc, PharmD ;   Sang Jun Park   ^{3 *} , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Sola Han   ⁴ , MSc, PharmD, PhD ;   Yongseok Mun   ⁵ , MD ;   Da Yun Lee   ³ , MS ;   Dong-Jin Chang   ⁶ , MSc, MD ;   Seok Kim   ⁷ , MPH ;   Sooyoung Yoo   ⁷ , PhD ;   Se Joon Woo   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Kyu Hyung Park   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Hae Sun Suh   ^{1, 2, 9} , MA, MPharm, PhD

¹ Department of Regulatory Science, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

² Institute of Regulatory Innovation Through Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁴ Health Outcomes Division, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

⁵ Department of Ophthalmology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yeouido St Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁷ Healthcare ICT Research Center, Office of eHealth Research and Businesses, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁹ College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally