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direct non-medical costs

2009
Costs associated with provision of medical services (e.g. costs for transport of a patient to a hospital, payments for a housekeeper); → see economic analysis.
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Direct Medical Cost of Influenza-Related Hospitalizations in Children

Pediatrics, 2006
OBJECTIVE. Our goal was to determine the cost of influenza-related hospitalization in children with community-acquired laboratory-confirmed influenza and to identify predictors of high hospitalization costs. PATIENTS AND METHODS. This was a retrospective cohort study of patients 21 years and younger hospitalized at a children's hospital ...
Ron, Keren   +4 more
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Direct Medical Costs for Partial Refractory Epilepsy in Mexico

Archives of Medical Research, 2006
The aim was to determine the direct medical costs in patients with partial refractory epilepsy at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Mexico.We carried out a multicenter, retrospective-cohort partial-economic evaluation study of partial refractory epilepsy (PRE) diagnosed patients and analyzed patient files from four secondary- and ...
Fernando, García-Contreras   +10 more
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Higher Direct Medical Costs Associated With Physical Inactivity

The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2000
The benefits of physical activity in reducing morbidity and mortality are well-established, but the effect of physical inactivity on direct medical costs is less clear.
M, Pratt, C A, Macera, G, Wang
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Direct Medical Costs in Patients with Fibromyalgia

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2011
To compare the direct medical costs of clinically diagnosed patients with fibromyalgia with the medical costs of matched controls during a 4-yr period and to assess the impact of a fibromyalgia treatment program on healthcare utilization and associated medical costs.A retrospective comparison of economic outcomes in 87 patients who participated in a ...
Jeffrey M, Thompson   +7 more
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The Cost and Regulation of Medical Technology: Future Policy Directions

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1977
A decade after the federal government plunged into the financing of health care, it has emerged not only as the system's major purchaser, but also as the major influence on health policy directions of the future. The traditional Washington dictum of "he who pays the piper calls the tune," is becoming a reality in health care, albeit not without a ...
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Evaluation of Direct Medical Costs Related to Cancer

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1995
In recent years, market forces and political processes have generated growing interest in the economic costs of disease to the individual, institutions, and society. It has long been recognized that these costs include the direct cost of disease treatment and care, other costs that accrue to patients and their families as a result of disease, and ...
Martin L. Brown, Bruce Fireman
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Direct medical cost of liver cirrhosis in Vietnam

Tạp Chí Khoa học Trường Đại học Quốc tế Hồng Bàng
Introduction: Cirrhosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and also a substantial economic burden for patients, healthcare system and society. However, research concentrating on cost of cirrhosis treatment in Vietnam are limited. The aim of this study was to estimate the inpatient treatment costs of liver cirrhosis and influencing factors ...
null Nguyen Duy Khanh   +3 more
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Direct medical costs for surgical and medical treatment of condylomata acuminata.

Archives of dermatology, 2001
To determine which treatment modalities for condylomata acuminata are associated with the lowest direct medical costs.Cost-effectiveness analysis.Ambulatory private practice, primary or specialty care.Adults with no presenting complaints other than condylomata acuminata.Construction of a cost-effectiveness model. From a literature review, extraction of
M, Alam, M, Stiller
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