AIMS The aim of this study was to determine the direct and indirect costs of Crohn's disease (CD) in paediatric and perianal patients in Canterbury in one year. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was performed. Paediatric CD patients and adult patients with perianal CD were recruited over a three month period. Interviews were conducted to obtain information regarding demographic...

objective: self-harm was classified to show forms like non-suicidal self injury and indirect risky behaviors and drug abuse. the aims of this study were to compare suicidal tendencies indexes and difficulty in emotion regulation skills in mixed groups of adolescents with direct and indirect forms of self-harm. methods: in a casual-comparative design from population of delinquent adolescents det...

OBJECTIVE Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and disabling disease frequently leading to physical and psychological dependence, with considerable economic consequences. The aim of our study was to perform a cost-of-illness analysis for RA according to the four different levels of functional RA severity. METHODS Direct costs (hospitalisations, treatments, diagnostics and the non-medical co...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of annual deaths, as well as the direct and indirect costs of occupational COPD and asthma, in the United States in 1996. DESIGN Aggregation and analysis of national data sets collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Health Care Financing Administration, and other government bureaus and private firms. To assess mortality, we reviewed data fr...

Background With an estimated 300 million individuals affected worldwide, asthma is associated with substantial social and economic burden. The cost of treating uncontrolled severe allergic asthma (SAA) is high encompassing a variety of direct medical costs and indirect costs. We present data on real-world healthcare utilization (direct) and school/ work absence (indirect) in uncontrolled SAA pa...