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The Art of Cost of Illness

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2010
The worldwide costs of dementia are US$315 billion [1]. Monthly costs of Alzheimer’s disease in Spain are 1,426 per month [2]. What is the purpose, value, and usefulness of such statements? The number of Cost of Illness (CoI) studies is steadily increasing.
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Cost-of-Illness Studies

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2003
Cost-of-illness studies measure the overall economic impact of a disease on society. Such studies are important in setting public health priorities and for economic evaluation of new treatments. These studies should take the societal perspective and include both direct and indirect costs. Often indirect costs exceed direct costs.
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Costs of mental illness in Britain

Health Policy, 1996
Cost of illness studies are a growing area of literature without a common methodology and their usefulness has been debated over the years. A short review carried out of the British studies on mental health revealed differences which originate from three main areas: the epidemiological evidence on prevalence, service contact data and the unit costs ...
K, Smith, K, Wright
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Cost-of-Illness in Rare Diseases

2017
Cost-of-illness (COI) studies quantify the economic burden of a disease, including direct healthcare and non-healthcare costs and productivity losses. Different approaches can be adopted to evaluate the resources associated to a disease and to calculate the total costs.
Renata, Linertová   +2 more
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COSTS OF HOSPITALIZED ACUTE ILLNESS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1950
The problem of how best to meet the rising costs of medical care has become one of the most controversial subjects of the day. As a corollary has come an increasing interest in voluntary insurance plans and the extent to which such plans help to meet the costs of illness.
T, WIPRUD, I, ALTMAN
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Cost of Illness

2020
Cost of illness (COI) or burden of illness (BOI) measures the economic burden of disease and illness on society. They can take either a prevalence- or incidence-based approach. COI or BOI lays the foundation on which the different types of analyses that are used to make decisions in allocation of healthcare resources are framed.
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Cost‐of‐illness of patients with lymphoedema

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2017
AbstractBackgroundChronic 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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[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   +2 more
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Theoretical considerations on the cost of illness

Journal of Health Economics, 1983
This 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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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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