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Genomes and GenesSpecies | cost of illnessSummarySummary: The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, QUALITY OF LIFE, etc. It differs from HEALTH CARE COSTS, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals. Top Publications
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Lost productive time and cost due to common pain conditions in the US workforceWalter F Stewart
AdvancePCS Center for Work and Health, Hunt Valley, MD, USA
JAMA 290:2443-54. 2003..Common pain conditions appear to have an adverse effect on work, but no comprehensive estimates exist on the amount of productive time lost in the US workforce due to pain...
Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for disability-adjusted life yearsC J Murray
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA 02138
Bull World Health Organ 72:429-45. 1994..Assigned to each class is a severity weight between 0 and 1. Finally, a three percent discount rate is used in the calculation of DALYs. The formula for calculating DALYs based on these assumptions is provided...
Costs of nine common mental disorders: implications for curative and preventive psychiatryFilip Smit
Trimbos Institute Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, P O Box 725, 2500 AS Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Ment Health Policy Econ 9:193-200. 2006..Moreover, few cost-of-illness studies used population-based psychiatric surveys for estimating direct medical, direct non-medical and indirect costs, and were able to do so for several well diagnosed mental disorders...
A systematic review of low back pain cost of illness studies in the United States and internationallySimon Dagenais
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Spine J 8:8-20. 2008..The economic burden of low back pain (LBP) is very large and appears to be growing. It is not possible to impact this burden without understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the research on which these costs are calculated...
Clinical characteristics and national economic cost of the 2005 dengue epidemic in PanamaBlas Armien
Department of Genomics and Proteomics, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudio de la Salud, Panama
Am J Trop Med Hyg 79:364-71. 2008..8 million. Additionally, estimated government spending on dengue control efforts was $5 million. This dengue epidemic had a major disease impact and an economic cost of $16.9 million ($5.22 per capita)...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: current burden and future projectionsA D Lopez
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Eur Respir J 27:397-412. 2006
Economic impact of dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand at the family and population levelsDanielle V Clark
Department of Virology, United States Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
Am J Trop Med Hyg 72:786-91. 2005..These results indicate that dengue prevention, control, and research should be considered equally important as that of diseases currently given priority...
The health and productivity cost burden of the "top 10" physical and mental health conditions affecting six large U.S. employers in 1999Ron Z Goetzel
Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Cornell University, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:5-14. 2003..Implications for employers and health plans in examining the health and productivity consequences of common health conditions are discussed...
The impact of aging and smoking on the future burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a model analysis in the NetherlandsT L Feenstra
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 164:590-6. 2001..The major causes of this increase are past smoking behavior and the aging of the population; changes in smoking behavior will have only a small effect in the nearby future...
Cost of illness: evidence from a study in five resource-poor locations in IndiaDavid M Dror
Institute for Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam MC
Indian J Med Res 127:347-61. 2008..In India, health services are funded largely through out-of-pocket spendings (OOPS). We carried out this study to collect data on the cost of an illness episode and parameters affecting cost in five locations in India...
Employees with fibromyalgia: medical comorbidity, healthcare costs, and work lossLeigh Ann White
Analysis Group, Inc, 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02199, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:13-24. 2008..To compare 2005 health care resources among matched samples of employees with fibromyalgia (FM), osteoarthritis (OA), and controls...
Trends in childhood asthma: prevalence, health care utilization, and mortalityLara J Akinbami
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 110:315-22. 2002..Our objective was to use national data to produce a comprehensive description of trends in childhood asthma prevalence, health care utilization, and mortality to assess changes in the disease burden among US children...
Disability adjusted life years lost to dengue in BrazilP M Luz
School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Trop Med Int Health 14:237-46. 2009..To assess the dengue burden in Brazil, and to compare it over three spatial scales: in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the state of Rio de Janeiro, and in Brazil overall...
Global burden of COPD: risk factors, prevalence, and future trendsDavid M Mannino
Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
Lancet 370:765-73. 2007..The challenge we will all face in the next few years will be implementation of cost-effective prevention and management strategies to stem the tide of this disease and its cost...
The economic burden of schizophrenia in the United States in 2002Eric Q Wu
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, MA 02199, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1122-9. 2005..This study quantifies excess annual costs associated with schizophrenia patients in the United States in 2002 from a societal perspective...
Cost of epilepsy: a systematic reviewAdam Strzelczyk
Department of Neurology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Pharmacoeconomics 26:463-76. 2008..Therefore, there is an urgent need for studies that evaluate direct and indirect costs in a standardized fashion...
The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010H U Wittchen
Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies CELOS, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 21:655-79. 2011....
Quality of life after stroke: the importance of a good recoveryFrancisco Javier Carod-Artal
Department of Neurology, Sarah Hospital, The Sarah Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Brasilia, Brazil
Cerebrovasc Dis 27:204-14. 2009..Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a recognized and important outcome after stroke. An increased survival and the presence of moderate impairment in long-term stroke survivors impact their HRQoL...
Economic burden of allergic rhinitis in KoreaSo Young Kim
Department of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Seoul, Korea
Am J Rhinol Allergy 24:e110-3. 2010..Therefore, this study investigated the health care use and socioeconomic costs of allergic rhinitis in Korea...
Societal and patient burden of fibromyalgia syndromeLieven Annemans
Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Pharmacoeconomics 27:547-59. 2009..Despite the complex and controversial construct of this syndrome, the results in terms of patient, healthcare payer and societal burden are quite consistent...
Costs of occupational asthma in the UKJon G Ayres
Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Thorax 66:128-33. 2011..To estimate the social costs of occupational asthma in the UK...
Global rotavirus surveillance: determining the need and measuring the impact of rotavirus vaccinesMarc Alain Widdowson
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Infect Dis 200:S1-8. 2009..Surveillance platforms will allow measurement of the rapid impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction on the heavy burden of rotavirus on child health worldwide...
Cost of stroke in the United KingdomOmer Saka
King s College London, Division of Health and Social Care Research, London SE1 3QD, UK
Age Ageing 38:27-32. 2009this study aims to quantify the annual cost of illness of stroke to the UK economy.
Estimating the burden of disease and the economic cost attributable to chikungunya, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2005-2006T Seyler
Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11 Saint Louis Street, 605 001 Pondicherry, India
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 104:133-8. 2010..Over the same period the burden for Andhra Pradesh was 6600 DALYs (cost: US$12 400 000). While the burden was moderate, costs were high and mostly out of pocket...
The relation between funding by the National Institutes of Health and the burden of diseaseC P Gross
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
N Engl J Med 340:1881-7. 1999..The Institute of Medicine has proposed that the amount of disease-specific research funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) be systematically and consistently compared with the burden of disease for society...
Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and AsiaDarryn L Knobel
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, Scotland
Bull World Health Organ 83:360-8. 2005..To quantify the public health and economic burden of endemic canine rabies in Africa and Asia...
The economic burden of stroke in Italy. The EcLIPSE Study: Economic Longitudinal Incidence-based Project for Stroke EvaluationS Gerzeli
Department of Applied Statistics and Economics Libero Lenti, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Neurol Sci 26:72-80. 2005..A prospective observational multicentre cost of illness study was designed...
The economic impact of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and exacerbation definition: a reviewEdmond L Toy
Analysis Group, Inc, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
COPD 7:214-28. 2010..Evaluation of pharmacoeconomic analyses would be aided by the use of more consistent and comprehensive approaches to defining and measuring COPD exacerbations...
Impact of osteoarthritis on individuals and society: how much disability? Social consequences and health economic implicationsPeter M Brooks
University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
Curr Opin Rheumatol 14:573-7. 2002..Its recognition as a major cause of disability, particularly in the aging population, should increase community focus on this important condition...
The global burden of epilepsyMatilde Leonardi
Evidence and Information for policy Cluster EIP, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Epilepsia 43:21-5. 2002..The burden of epilepsy is high and, for the year 2000, accounts for approximately 0.5% of the whole burden of diseases in the world...
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease frameworkColin D Mathers
Information, Evidence and Research Cluster, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 1:e114. 2007..3% of the global burden of disease and injuries. Further research is currently underway to revise and update these estimates...
Cost of care for elderly cancer patients in the United StatesK Robin Yabroff
Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza North, Rm 4005, 6130 Executive Blvd, MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:630-41. 2008..We estimated net costs of care for elderly cancer patients in the United States for the 18 most prevalent cancers and for all other tumor sites combined...
Costs of shoulder pain in primary care consulters: a prospective cohort study in The NetherlandsTon Kuijpers
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 7:83. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine shoulder pain related costs during the 6 months after first consultation in general practice..
The high burden of injuries in South AfricaRosana Norman
Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
Bull World Health Organ 85:695-702. 2007..To estimate the magnitude and characteristics of the injury burden in South Africa within a global context...
Low back pain in Australian adults: the economic burdenB F Walker
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Asia Pac J Public Health 15:79-87. 2003..This study identifies that research should concentrate on both direct but particularly the indirect costs including cost-effective management regimes that encourage an early return to duties...
The cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination: Comparative analyses for five European countries and transferability in EuropeMark Jit
Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Vaccine 27:6121-8. 2009..The estimated threshold price per dose for Rotarix (excluding administration costs) to be cost effective was euro41 in Belgium, euro28 in England and Wales, euro51 in Finland, euro36 in France and euro46 in the Netherlands...
Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and povertyGabriela Flores
Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Health Econ 17:1393-412. 2008..Ignoring health payments leads to underestimate poverty by 7-8% points among hospitalized households; 80% of this adjustment is hidden poverty due to coping...
Work absence after breast cancer diagnosis: a population-based studyMelanie Drolet
Unité de recherche en santé des populations, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Quebec, Que
CMAJ 173:765-71. 2005..We examined work absences of 4 weeks or more among women who had had breast cancer during the 3 years after diagnosis and compared their absences with those of women who had never had cancer...
Reassessment of the cost of chronic helmintic infection: a meta-analysis of disability-related outcomes in endemic schistosomiasisCharles H King
Center for Global Health and Diseases, Wolstein 4126, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 7286, USA
Lancet 365:1561-9. 2005..To develop an evidenced-based reassessment of schistosomiasis-related disability, we did a systematic review of data on disability-associated outcomes for all forms of schistosomiasis...
Measuring the full economic costs of diet, physical activity and obesity-related chronic diseasesB M Popkin
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 3997, USA
Obes Rev 7:271-93. 2006..The Chinese case study found that the indirect effects of obesity and obesity-related dietary and physical activity patterns range between 3.58% and 8.73% of gross national product (GNP) in 2000 and 2025 respectively...
The burden of otitis mediaJ O Klein
Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, 774 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Vaccine 19:S2-8. 2000..The incidence and severity of OM may diminish with introduction of new bacterial and viral vaccines...
Transferability of economic evaluations: approaches and factors to consider when using results from one geographic area for anotherRon Goeree
St Joseph s Hospital, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Curr Med Res Opin 23:671-82. 2007..However, inappropriate transferability of economic data can provide misleading results and lead to an inefficient use of scarce health care resources...
Years of life lost due to obesityKevin R Fontaine
Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 289:187-93. 2003..However, blacks at younger ages with severe levels of obesity had a maximum YLL of 20 for men and 5 for women. CONCLUSION: Obesity appears to lessen life expectancy markedly, especially among younger adults...
The economic burden of illness for households in developing countries: a review of studies focusing on malaria, tuberculosis, and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndromeSteven Russell
School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Am J Trop Med Hyg 71:147-55. 2004..Government and non-governmental interventions should also be broadened to encompass measures that reduce the substantial indirect costs associated with diseases such as malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS...
Cost-effectiveness of a pediatric dengue vaccineDonald S Shepard
Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School, Room G19, Mail Stop 035, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454 9110, USA
Vaccine 22:1275-80. 2004..Eventually, vaccination may be able to replace environmental control as a strategy for dengue prevention and be cost saving...
Costs of back pain in GermanyChristina M Wenig
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich School of Management and Munich Center of Health Sciences, Munich, Germany
Eur J Pain 13:280-6. 2009..The information may be of value for decision-making and allocation of research fund resources...
Quality of life impairment, disability and economic burden associated with chronic daily headache, focusing on chronic migraine with or without medication overuse: a systematic reviewMichel Lanteri-Minet
Département d Evaluation et traitement de la Douleur Médecine palliative, Pôle neurosciences cliniques, CHU de Nice Hôpital Pasteur, 30 Avenue de la Voie Romaine, Nice Cedex 1, France
Cephalalgia 31:837-50. 2011..To evaluate the evidence for quality of life (QoL) impairment, disability, healthcare resource use and economic burden associated with chronic daily headache (CDH), focusing on chronic migraine (CM) with or without medication overuse...
Burden of fibromyalgia and comparisons with osteoarthritis in the workforceNathan Kleinman
HCMS Group, Paso Robles, Calif, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:1384-93. 2009..To calculate the fibromyalgia (FM) burden of illness (BOI) from the employer perspective and to compare annual prevalence, work output, absence, and health benefit costs of employees with FM versus osteoarthritis (OA)...
Burden among stroke caregivers: results of a community-based study from Kolkata, IndiaSujata Das
Department of Neurology, Bangur Institute of Neuroscience, Kolkata 700025, India
Stroke 41:2965-8. 2010..Stroke causes significant caregiver (CG) stress, which is under-reported in India. This study assesses the financial, physical, psychological, and family burden on CG of stroke patients in an urban community...
Cost-of-illness analysis. What room in health economics?Rosanna Tarricone
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Health Policy 77:51-63. 2006..In order to reach these goals, COI need to be designed as observational bottom-up studies...
Direct and indirect costs of pain therapy for osteoarthritis in an insured population in the United StatesAlan G White
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, MA 02199, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:998-1005. 2008To assess the health care utilization and cost of illness for osteoarthritis (OA) patients taking pain medications. Specifically, the goals were to estimate the direct health care and indirect costs of OA.
Osteoarthritis and absenteeism costs: evidence from US National Survey DataHarry Kotlarz
DePuy, Inc, Warsaw, Indiana, USA
J Occup Environ Med 52:263-8. 2010..This study seeks to quantify the effects of osteoarthritis on the cost of absenteeism from work...
Cost of dengue and other febrile illnesses to households in rural Cambodia: a prospective community-based case-control studyRekol Huy
Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, 5 Bld Monivong POB 983, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
BMC Public Health 9:155. 2009..We conducted a prospective, community-based, matched case-control study to assess the cost and impact of an episode of dengue fever and other febrile illness on households in rural Cambodia...
The public health impact of obesityT L Visscher
Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Annu Rev Public Health 22:355-75. 2001..Obesity prevention programs should be high on the scientific and political agenda in both industrialized and industrializing countries...
Improving care through health economics analyses: cost of illness and headacheFrancesco Saverio Mennini
CEIS Sanità Centre for Health Economics and Management CHEM, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
J Headache Pain 9:199-206. 2008..This study will explain the notion of cost of illness, examining how it could be applied in such a framework...
The informal caregiver's burden of dependent people: theory and empirical reviewStephanie Carretero
Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Avda de los naranjos s n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Arch Gerontol Geriatr 49:74-9. 2009....
"It is me who endures but my family that suffers": social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatmentKoen Peeters Grietens
Partners for Applied Social Sciences PASS International, Leuven, Belgium
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2:e321. 2008..These findings demonstrate that further research and investment in Bu are urgently needed to evaluate new intervention strategies that are socially acceptable and appropriate in the local context...
Economic aspects of bladder cancer: what are the benefits and costs?K D Sievert
Department for Urology, University of Tuebingen, Hoppe Seyler Str 3, Tuebingen 72076, Germany
World J Urol 27:295-300. 2009..The purpose of this paper was to utilize the recent literature to identify opportunities for improving the benefits and costs of BC care...
The impact of medication regimen factors on adherence to chronic treatment: a review of literatureKaren S Ingersoll
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science, University of Virginia, 1670 Discovery Drive, Suite 110, Charlottesville, VA 22911, USA
J Behav Med 31:213-24. 2008..Most studies failed to use state-of-the-art methods of measuring adherence. Despite these flaws, a suggestive pattern of the importance of regimen factors, specifically dose frequency and regimen complexity, emerged from this review...
Mental disorders and quality of life in COPD patients and their spousesKerstin Kühl
Philipps University Marburg, Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Gutenbergstrasse 18, D 35032 Marburg, Germany
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 3:727-36. 2008..Of special interest is the fact that the relation between emotional distress and quality of life is interactive within a couple...
Cost-of-illness studies of dementia: a systematic review focusing on stage dependency of costsW Quentin
Health Economics Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 26, Leipzig, Germany
Acta Psychiatr Scand 121:243-59. 2010..To review cost-of-illness (COI) studies of dementia from Europe and North America which report costs per patient by disease stage...
[Economic burden of cancer in South Korea for the year 2005]Jinhee Kim
National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Korea
J Prev Med Public Health 42:190-8. 2009..The objective of this study is to estimate the economic costs of cancer on society...
Characteristics of patients with fibromyalgia in France and GermanyS Perrot
Service de Médecine Interne et Thérapeutique, Consultation de la douleur, Hôtel Dieu Hôpital, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Int J Clin Pract 64:1100-8. 2010..Few studies have comprehensively assessed the burden associated with fibromyalgia (FM). This cross-sectional, observational study evaluates the impact of FM on patients in France and Germany...
Methods for determining disease burden and calibrating national surveillance data in the United Kingdom: the second study of infectious intestinal disease in the community (IID2 study)Sarah J O'Brien
School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
BMC Med Res Methodol 10:39. 2010..We will also outline methods to determine whether or not incidence has declined since the mid-1990s...
Resource utilisation and health care costs in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia in SpainJ Rivera
Unidad de Reumatologia, Instituto Provincial de Rehabilitación, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Clin Exp Rheumatol 27:S39-45. 2009..The aim of this study is to describe health care resource utilisation and related costs of FM from the perspective of the National Health System in Spain...
Call for more research on injury from the developing world: results of a bibliometric analysisN N Borse
Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Indian J Med Res 129:321-6. 2009....
Incidence, characteristics, and economic burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis associated with hospitalization of israeli children <5 years of age, 2007-2008Khitam Muhsen
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Infect Dis 200:S254-63. 2009..Objectives. Our objective was to examine the incidence, characteristics, and economic burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis associated with hospitalization of children <5 years of age in Israel...
Considerations for introduction of a rotavirus vaccine in Oman: rotavirus disease and economic burdenS A Al Awaidy
Departments of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control, Cairo, Egypt
J Infect Dis 200:S248-53. 2009..8 million annually to treat rotavirus-associated diarrhea in the outpatient and hospital settings, respectively. A rotavirus vaccination program might substantially reduce the burden of severe diarrhea among children in Oman...
The value of productivity: human-capital versus friction-cost methodW B van den Hout
Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Decision Making, J10 S, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
Ann Rheum Dis 69:i89-91. 2010..If productivity is given less weight by excluding productivity costs or by using the friction-cost method, then currently, biological agents are probably too expensive...
The global burden of typhoid feverJohn A Crump
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, MS A 38, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Bull World Health Organ 82:346-53. 2004..To use new data to make a revised estimate of the global burden of typhoid fever, an accurate understanding of which is necessary to guide public health decisions for disease control and prevention efforts...
Economic burden of illness for employees with painful conditionsAlan G White
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:884-92. 2005..We sought to compare the medical services utilization and average annual direct (ie, medical and medication) and indirect (ie, work-loss) costs for employees with painful conditions to a random sample ("average employee")...
Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco usePerviz Asaria
Kings Fund, London, UK
Lancet 370:2044-53. 2007....
The economic impact of dengue hemorrhagic fever on family level in Southern VietnamMette Lønstrup Harving
University of Copenhagen and Children s Hospital No 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Dan Med Bull 54:170-2. 2007..Larger studies are needed for a more accurate estimate of the extent of the expenses related to both dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever...
Asthma: prevalence and cost of illnessS Stock
Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology of the University of Cologne, Gleueler Str 176 178, 50935 Cologne, Germany
Eur Respir J 25:47-53. 2005The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and cost of illness of asthma in Germany by retrospectively analysing routine health insurance data...
Burden of illness in painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: the patients' perspectivesMugdha Gore
Avalon Health Solutions, Inc, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
J Pain 7:892-900. 2006..Results also suggest suboptimal pain management and low levels of satisfaction with treatments...
The burden of musculoskeletal disease--a global perspectivePeter M Brooks
Health Sciences, University of Queensland Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Clin Rheumatol 25:778-81. 2006....
Psychiatric symptoms in caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder: a reviewAnnie Steele
Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10009, USA
J Affect Disord 121:10-21. 2010..This review presents what is currently known about psychiatric symptoms in this population and suggests directions for future research...
Lifetime cost of stroke subtypes in Australia: findings from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)Helen M Dewey
National Stroke Research Institute, Level 1, Neurosciences Bldg, Repatriation Campus, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, 300 Waterdale Rd, Heidelberg Heights, Victoria 3081, Australia au
Stroke 34:2502-7. 2003..The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of resource use and to estimate the first-year and lifetime costs for stroke subtypes...
Sentinel hospital-based surveillance of rotavirus diarrhea in iranA Eesteghamati
Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran
J Infect Dis 200:S244-7. 2009..We established active hospital-based surveillance of childhood diarrhea to assess the scope of severe rotavirus disease in Iran...
Measuring the local burden of disease. A study of years of life lost in sub-Saharan AfricaR Würthwein
Alfred Weber Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Int J Epidemiol 30:501-8. 2001..For sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in particular, the GBDS relies on extrapolations and expert guesses. Its results lack validation by locally measured epidemiological data...
Economic cost of severe antisocial behaviour in children--and who pays itRenee Romeo
Centre for the Economics of Mental Health Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:547-53. 2006..Wider uptake of evidence-based interventions is likely to lead to considerable economic benefits in the short term, and probably even more in the long term...
Burden of symptomatic dengue infection in children at primary school in Thailand: a prospective studyKatie B Anderson
Division of Communicable Diseases and Immunology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Lancet 369:1452-9. 2007..Dengue viruses are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in tropical and subtropical areas. Our aim was to assess prospectively the burden of dengue-related illness in children in Thailand...
Impact of COPD severity on physical disability and daily living activities: EDIP-EPOC I and EDIP-EPOC II studiesJ M Rodriguez Gonzalez-Moro
Pulmonology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Int J Clin Pract 63:742-50. 2009..This burden should be considered in the management of COPD patients; therefore, we intended to assess the impact of the disease severity on physical disability and daily activities...
The impact of genital warts: loss of quality of life and cost of treatment in eight sexual health clinics in the UKS C Woodhall
Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK
Sex Transm Infect 87:458-63. 2011..To estimate the loss of quality of life and cost of treatment associated with genital warts seen in sexual health clinics...
Cost of illness in subarachnoid hemorrhage: a German longitudinal studyRichard Dodel
Department of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Stroke 41:2918-23. 2010..The objective was to evaluate first-year costs in German patients with aneurysmal SAH and to identify independent determinants of costs...
Conceptual challenges in the study of caregiver-care recipient relationshipsJennifer Hagerty Lingler
Department of Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Nurs Res 57:367-72. 2008..Yet, informal care dynamics are fundamentally relational and often reciprocal, and caregiving roles can be complex and overlapping...
Health burden and funding at the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCecilia W Curry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:269-76. 2006..The relationship between domestic funding for selected conditions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the burden of disease and disability in the United States was assessed systematically...
Costs and quality of life in multiple sclerosis in The NetherlandsGisela Kobelt
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Eur J Health Econ 7:S55-64. 2006..24 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) per patient. Relapses for patients with an EDSS score below 5 are associated with a cost of around euro 2.800 and a utility loss of 0.15 during the quarter in which they occur...
Burden of disease: medical and economic impact of acute coronary syndromesAlexander G G Turpie
Hamilton Health Sciences General Hospital, 237 Barton St E, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8L 2X2
Am J Manag Care 12:S430-4. 2006..More recently developed antithrombotic agents may have clinical and economic advantages over older therapies...
Estimating the global burden of disease of mild mental retardation and cardiovascular diseases from environmental lead exposureL J Fewtrell
Centre for Research into Environment and Health, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Environ Res 94:120-33. 2004..This estimate can be used to assess the magnitude of the benefits that could be accrued by increasing the global coverage of lead-reduction programs...
Estimating the long-term costs of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke for Australia: new evidence derived from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)Dominique A Cadilhac
National Stroke Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Stroke 40:915-21. 2009..NEMESIS now has patient-level resource use data for 5 years. We aimed to recalculate the long-term resource utilization of first-ever stroke patients and compare these to previous estimates obtained using data collected to 12 months...
Cost of illness and economic evaluation in rare diseasesJulio Lopez-Bastida
Canary Islands Health Service, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38004, Spain
Adv Exp Med Biol 686:273-82. 2010..of rare diseases from two different perspectives: firstly, the study of the economic impact of rare diseases (Cost of Illness studies); and, secondly, cost-effectiveness evaluation, which evaluates both the costs and results of the ..
Problems of new caregivers of persons with strokeLinda L Pierce
College of Nursing, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
Rehabil Nurs 31:166-72; discussion 173. 2006..Nurses could use these findings to identify and focus on self-care needs of caregivers and to implement problem-resolution strategies...
Characteristics and views of family carers of older people with heart failureSarah Barnes
Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, University of Sheffield
Int J Palliat Nurs 12:380-9. 2006..to explore the characteristics and views of the family carers of older people with heart failure...
Psychosocial intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia reduces caregiver's burden: development and effect after 6 and 12 monthsAndrén Signe
Department of Health Sciences, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
Scand J Caring Sci 22:98-109. 2008....
Caregiver perspectives on safety in home dementia careHelen W Lach
Saint Louis University School of Nursing, St Louis, MO, USA
West J Nurs Res 29:993-1014. 2007..Caregivers described different stages of adopting actions to prevent accidents and injuries consistent with the TTM. The TTM warrants further study for understanding how to help caregivers make changes to promote safe care...
The perceived burden among Chinese family caregivers of people with schizophreniaWai Tong Chien
The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
J Clin Nurs 16:1151-61. 2007....
Informal caregiving burden in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: the HABIT studyCesare Gridelli
Division of Medical Oncology, S G Moscati Hospital, Avellino, Italy
J Thorac Oncol 2:475-80. 2007..This study's aim was to assess economic data regarding the home assistance burden for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in Italy...
Mexican American intergenerational caregiving modelSocorro Escandón
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
West J Nurs Res 28:564-85. 2006....
Huntington's disease. Part 3: family aspects of HDAimee Aubeeluck
School of Nursing, Queen s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham
Br J Nurs 17:328-31. 2008..The complex nature of HD requires service providers, researchers and policy makers to consider each case on an individual basis, thus tailoring service provision to the user and their family's unique requirements...
Experiences and demands of families with mentally ill people at home in BotswanaEsther S Seloilwe
Department of Nursing Education, University of Botswana, Gaborone
J Nurs Scholarsh 38:262-8. 2006..To describe the experiences and demands of families who care for their mentally ill relatives at home in Botswana...
Research Grants
- MENTORED PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENTMatthew Byerly; Fiscal Year: 2006..projects, are to: (I) develop the skills to measure access to care, health outcomes, and the economic cost of illness; (2) expand expertise in evaluating and implementing non-pharmacologic treatments; (3) improve the ability to ..
- ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE FAST TRACK INTERVENTIONEDWARD FOSTER; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., special education); (4) collection and processing of administrative data (e.g., on welfare receipt); (5) development and estimation of statistical models used to predict future social costs. ..
- Host Factors in Susceptibility to Chlamydial DiseaseKYLE RAMSEY; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- The Economic Cost of Malaria in AfricaAndrew Spielman; Fiscal Year: 2002..The study will also carry out cost benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses to facilitate policy decisions about the appropriate use of resources for malaria control, both in the private and the public sectors. ..
- The Economic Cost of Malaria in AfricaJeffrey Sachs; Fiscal Year: 2001..The study will also carry out cost benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses to facilitate policy decisions about the appropriate use of resources for malaria control, both in the private and the public sectors. ..
- RESTRUCTURING SERVICES FOR DRUG ABUSING TANF WOMENJon Morgenstern; Fiscal Year: 2007..with crucial information needed for dissemination: 1) conducting an economic evaluation of ICM including a cost of illness study and cost benefit study; and 2) increasing adoption of evidence-based practice by examining the ..
- RESTRUCTURING SERVICES FOR DRUG ABUSING TANF WOMENJon Morgenstern; Fiscal Year: 2009..with crucial information needed for dissemination: 1) conducting an economic evaluation of ICM including a cost of illness study and cost benefit study; and 2) increasing adoption of evidence-based practice by examining the ..
- RESTRUCTURING SERVICES FOR DRUG ABUSING TANF WOMENJon Morgenstern; Fiscal Year: 2010..with crucial information needed for dissemination: 1) conducting an economic evaluation of ICM including a cost of illness study and cost benefit study;and 2) increasing adoption of evidence-based practice by examining the ..
- ECONOMIC COST OF DRUG USE AND ABUSEROSALIE PACULA; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- ECONOMIC COST OF DRUG USE AND ABUSEROSALIE PACULA; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- CENTER FOR LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS IN MEDICAL DEMOGRAPHYKenneth Manton; Fiscal Year: 2004..of the oldest-old population, genetics of aging and chronic diseases, long-term care, and caregiver services, cost of illness, health and functional status forecasting, studies of women's health among others (see Introduction)...
- Comprehensive Support for Alzheimer's Disease CaregiversJOSEPH GAUGLER; Fiscal Year: 2006..The proposed evaluation will provide detailed information on the potential of the ECS to serve as a model intervention for various family caregivers of Alzheimer's patients in diverse geographic contexts. ..
- Comprehensive Support for Alzheimer's Disease CaregiversJOSEPH GAUGLER; Fiscal Year: 2007..The proposed evaluation will provide detailed information on the potential of the ECS to serve as a model intervention for various family caregivers of Alzheimer?s patients in diverse geographic contexts. ..
- Caregiver Outcomes Post NH Placement of a Family MemberJOSEPH GAUGLER; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Family Involvement /Resident Psychosocial Status in LTCJOSEPH GAUGLER; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- Institutional Permeability in Long-Term CareJOSEPH GAUGLER; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Costs of Occupational Injury and IllnessJ Leigh; Fiscal Year: 2007..But reported national injury rates have been fallen since 1992. Moreover, Workers' Compensation costs fell from 1993 to 1998 but have risen since 1999. Current and comprehensive estimates are needed. ..
- Skills Training and Empowerment Program for Middle-Aged and Older Patients with PBrent T Mausbach; Fiscal Year: 2010..Both groups will receive 6 months of booster sessions to reinforce functional gains. Group differences in functional outcomes will be determined based upon assessments made at baseline, 6-, 12-, and 18-months post-baseline. ..
- Reducing CVD Risk in Caregivers: A Brief Behavioral Activation InterventionBrent T Mausbach; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory GroupRonald C Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- MENTAL DISORDERS AS RISK FACTORS FOR SUBSTANCE DISORDERSRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Quantifying the Value of Value-Based PurchasingRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Risk Factors for Psychopathology in the WHO WMH SurveysRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2006..The unprecedented size and substantive richness of the WMH database will allow important contributions to be made in each of these six areas of investigation. ..
- Reducing the Adverse Impact of Mental Illness Stigma Among Family CaregiversDeborah Perlick; Fiscal Year: 2009..The proposed research represents a novel approach to improving stigma coping based on sound social psychological principles and modeled after a widely-disseminated anti-stigma program for consumers. ..
- Treating Caregiver Stress and Health in Bipolar DisorderDeborah Perlick; Fiscal Year: 2007..Training materials will be developed for a larger-scale study. ..
- Bipolar Illness Therapy, Family Burden, Costs & HealthDeborah Perlick; Fiscal Year: 2003..They will help us understand how family burden and coping impact on the health and health practices of caregivers of person with bipolar illness. ..
- A Comprehensive Probabilistic-Micro-Simulation Model to Assess Cost-EffectivenessAnirban Basu; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- A Comprehensive Probabilistic-Micro-Simulation Model to Assess Cost-EffectivenessAnirban Basu; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Education , Self-Management and AdherenceJames Smith; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, we will evaluate the relative importance of patient self-management and adherence as a factor accounting for the significant education health gradient across these chronic illnesses. ..
- Longitudinal outcomes of hearing-impaired children: early vs later interventionTeresa Ching; Fiscal Year: 2009..The study will be the most comprehensive with regard to predictors, outcomes, representativeness, and number of children. ..
- Valuation of Primary Care-Integrated TelehealthKenneth McConnochie; Fiscal Year: 2006..Direct and indirect costs will be assessed. Study B will assess integration in primary care, for example by measuring impact on continuity of care, adherence to well-child visit schedules and immunization rates. ..
- WEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG MATURE & OLDER ADULTSJames Smith; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO AN HPV DIAGNOSIS IN MENEllen M Daley; Fiscal Year: 2010..These data will assist in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to reduce HPV infection in both sexes. ..
- Representational Intervention to Promote End-of-Life Decision-Making PreparationMi Kyung Song; Fiscal Year: 2010..The SPIRIT intervention to be tested with ESRD patients has the potential to have a broad impact in improving care for the seriously ill and their families who face end-of-life decision making. ..
- Images of self and others in AIDS-orphaned youthWarren Reich; Fiscal Year: 2004..Results will lay the groundwork for theoretically informed prevention interventions. ..
- Caregiver desynchrony:Subjective and expressive emotionShelby Langer; Fiscal Year: 2003..As survivorship expands, so too does the pool of long-term CGs. Collectively, this work will serve as a springboard for person-specific and relationship-protective interventions. ..
- A Telenovela Intervention to Increase Mexican American Elders' Home Care UseJanice Crist; Fiscal Year: 2009..We will show the videotapes in the hospital setting. We will compare results 6 months later. ..
- Improving The Quality Of Advanced Cancer Care With Disease ManagementBarbara Daly; Fiscal Year: 2009..remain after controlling for the influence of demographic, clinical and organizational covariates? (5) To what extent are differences in patient and caregiver outcomes achieved through improvements in collaboration and problem solving? ..
