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Cost of illness studies in rheumatic diseases
Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 2002Knowledge about the economic burden of rheumatic diseases has progressed during recent years. In addition to the increasing number of studies published, the Economics Working Group of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial (OMERACT) Conference has produced substantial work to improve methodological standards for the economic ...
Bruno, Fautrel, Francis, Guillemin
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Nosocomial Pneumonia: A Cost-of-Illness Analysis
Infection, 2002We investigated incremental cost of nosocomial pneumonia (NP) from the perspective of a hospital and health insurance funds.The incremental cost was determined by calculating total costs for pneumonia patients and controls using prospective and retrospective matched-pairs analysis with 29 and 37 matched pairs, respectively.Compared to controls ...
Dietrich, Eva Susanne +6 more
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Cost of Illness in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2017Frequent relapses sometimes necessitating hospitalization and the absence of pharmacological cure contribute to substantial healthcare costs in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). The costs of health care in Indian patients with IBD are unknown.To evaluate the annual costs for treating Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.A prevalence-based, micro ...
Nagesh, Kamat +3 more
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Cost-of-Illness Studies in Diabetes Mellitus
PharmacoEconomics, 2004Several cost-of-illness (COI) studies related to diabetes mellitus have been performed over the last three decades. This review examines the results of these COI studies, identifies the strengths and limitations of the various methods utilised, and suggests future research that will help determine the economic burden of diabetes more accurately ...
Lorraine, Ettaro +3 more
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Cost‐of‐illness of patients with lymphoedema
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2017AbstractBackgroundChronic lymphoedema is characterized by a continuous need for medical treatment, many comorbidities and impaired quality of life. In Germany, about 4.5 million patients are affected by lymphoedema. Thus, lymphoedema causes high direct and indirect costs, even more in case of complications such as erysipelas and ulcers.ObjectiveThe aim
M, Gutknecht +6 more
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Annual Costs of Illness versus Lifetime Costs of Illness and Implications of Structural Change
Drug Information Journal, 1988Annual, or prevalence, costs of illness typically measure the costs during a year (the base period) of manifestations of disease that may have had its onset during or any time prior to the base year. Lifetime, or incidence, costs of illness include costs incurred from onset until cure or death, which can extend over many years.
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Theoretical considerations on the cost of illness
Journal of Health Economics, 1983This paper explores the measurement of the cost of illness from a theoretical perspective. It is shown that under a wide range of circumstances the aggregate willingness to pay ex ante to reduce the probability of an illness exceeds (1) the consumer surplus gained ex post from such a reduction, and also (2) the sum of medical expenditure saved and ...
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Problems in Measuring the Cost of Illness
Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1982Cost of illness (COI) studies have grown in importance in the last decade. They are frequently used in funding decisions for selected health care programs. Cost of illness study proponents present their results as objective, unbiased analysis. Yet, there are severe conceptual and methodological difficulties with the technique. Given its methodological
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, 2010 This paper aims to quantify some of the costs associated with ill health in New Zealand. The main focus is in estimating indirect costs as opposed to direct health care expenditure costs. In particular, it estimates the cost of absenteeism, presenteeism, working less and not working at all owing to ill health. Around 1,196,200 working age, non-students
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