%0 Journal Article %T A comparison of long-term healthcare utilization and costs in patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis receiving infliximab versus early colectomy %A Abhinav Vasudevan %A Asiri Arachchi %A Cian Scanlon %A Daniel R. Van Langenberg %A Jarrod Greenhalgh %J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease". %D 2019 %R 10.1177/2040622319825595 %X Early intervention for acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC) improves outcomes. Outcomes and healthcare costs for an infliximab-first and colectomy-first approach were compared %K biologics %K health economics %K inflammatory bowel disease %K outcomes research %K surgery %K ulcerative colitis %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354298/