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Estimating the Direct Costs of Illness

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1982
about estimating the costs of illness has centered around the relative advantages and disadvantages of the two basic methodologies used or proposed-the "human capital" method as against "willingness to pay." Very briefly, the human capital approach requires estimating the direct costs of illness, i.e., the costs of prevention, detection, treatment, and
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[The cost of illness].

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 1992
This study is an essential prerequisite to gain more insight into the complex relationship between public health and the costs of medical care. It offers a first tentative but comprehensive description of the total direct costs generated by all diseases in the Dutch population.
L, van Roijen, M A, Koopmanschap, L, Bonneux   +2 more
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Cost-of-Illness Studies

PharmacoEconomics, 1998
A sample of cost-of-illness (COI) studies was reviewed, which included studies for specific diseases ('specific' studies) as well as those for the entire range of diseases ('general' studies). Theoretically, COI studies may deliver suitable information for health policy and rational healthcare spending.
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Problems in Measuring the Cost of Illness

Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1982
Cost 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.
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Pterygium in Australia: a cost of illness study

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2001
ABSTRACT Purpose: The aim of this report was to describe the number of Australians affected by pterygium in recent years, treatment options, number of treatment encounters and costs of treatment. Method: A review of published literature was conducted to identify the prevalence of pterygium in Australian populations.
J, Wlodarczyk, P, Whyte, P, Cockrum, H, Taylor   +3 more
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Cost of Illness of Crohn??s Disease

PharmacoEconomics, 2002
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of unknown aetiology which affects around 35,000 people in the UK (population 56.8 million). The potential for onset in early adult life, disease chronicity and a need for hospitalisation and surgery mean that the disease can be associated with substantial healthcare costs. Cost-of-illness studies
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The Cost of Illness of Pressure Ulcers in the Netherlands

Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2002
To conduct a cost-of-illness study of pressure ulcers in the Netherlands for different care settings, including home care, nursing homes, general hospitals, and university hospitals.A cost-of-illness study was conducted based on prevalence figures and expert opinion.
Johan L, Severens, Jolanda M, Habraken, Sanja, Duivenvoorden, Carla M A, Frederiks   +3 more
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Direct Cost of Illness for Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review

Global Spine Journal, 2022
Hamid Malekzadeh, Zahra Ghodsi, Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini   +2 more
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The cost of ill-health

British Dental Journal, 1998
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The Cost of Cost‐of‐Illness Studies

Medical Journal of Australia, 1993
P J, Davey, S R, Leeder
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