This DataWatch presents estimates of the health care costs for all adults who were continuously enrolled in a large staff-model health maintenance organization (HMO) during 1992. More than one-third of these adults were diagnosed with at least one chronic condition in 1992, and costs for this population are at least twice those of the population without chronic conditions. A diagnosis of a chro...

Practical PAIN MANAGEMENT, March 2006 ©2006 PPM Communications, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Pain is arguably the most common condition seen in primary care, and the most costly one as well. Although estimates vary, the National Center for Health Statistics concludes that fully 80% of all physician visits involve some complaint of pain. Another study found that 38% of patients presenting in ...

Objective-Life expectancy without activity limitations or active life expectancy is one of the health expectancy measures that is used to summarize population health. The measure differentiates the remaining years of life that are expected to be spent with activity limitations from expected years of life without activity limitations. The objective of this study was to estimate life expectancy w...

BACKGROUND The growing caseload caused by patients with chronic life-long conditions leads to increased needs for health care providers and rising costs of health services, resulting in a heavy burden on health systems, populations and individuals. The professionalised health care for chronic patients common in high income countries is very labour-intensive and expensive. Moreover, the outcomes...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of chronic physical and mental disorders is increasing among children and adolescents in the United States. In this study, we investigated the association between mental health disorders and chronic physical conditions among children, and we assessed whether having mental disorders is associated with increased health care costs for children with chronic physical cond...

OBJECTIVE This study compares medical errors in pediatric trauma patients with and without chronic conditions. METHODS The 2009 Kids' Inpatient Database, which included 123,303 trauma discharges, was analyzed. Medical errors were identified by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes. The medical error rates per 100 discharges and per 100...

conclusions telephone consultation partially based on a cognitive-behavioral approach significantly reduced the intensity of pain and improved the qol in patients with chronic pain in japan. results the pain intensities were significantly decreased from 7.6 ± 2.0 at baseline to 5.7 ± 2.9 on follow-ups assessed by a numerical rating scale (range; 0 - 10, p < 0.001, effect size (es); 0.76). the e...

The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence, pattern, and social determinants of chronic conditions multimorbidity among chronic disease primary care patients in four Greater Mekong countries (Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). In a cross-sectional survey, chronic disease patients accessing primary care were recruited if they had been diagnosed with any of 21 chronic conditions ...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that affects 10–15% of the adult population, prevalence expected to increase worldwide [...]