Estimating the cost of illness.

Estimating the Cost of Illness of Giant Cell Arteritis in the United States

INTRODUCTION Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic vasculitis affecting approximately 230,000 Americans. Limited data exist on the healthcare resource utilization and costs attributable to GCA. The objective of this study was to estimate the cost of illness in patients with GCA in the US. METHODS A cohort of patients with a new GCA diagnosis was identified from a large US claims database be...

The Cost of Mental Illness

The evaluation of cost-of-illness due to use of cost-of-illness-based chemicals

OBJECTIVES This study is conducted to estimate the cost paid by the public suffering from disease possibly caused by chemical and to examine the effect on public health. METHODS Cost-benefit analysis is an important factor in analysis and decision-making and is an important policy decision tool in many countries. Cost-of-illness (COI), a kind of scale-based analysis method, estimates the pote...

The cost of the illness that defies.

The art of cost of illness.

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. For almost any high resource-consuming disease, there is some kind of CoI estimate available. There is also a kind of ongoing CoI rally. Li...