AIMS The EndoCost study aims to calculate the costs of endometriosis from a societal perspective. METHODS This multicentre, prevalence-based cost-of-illness analysis aggregates data on endometriosis costs and quality of life from a prospective hospital questionnaire and from both retrospective and prospective patient questionnaires. The EndoCost study comprises 12 representative tertiary care...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether a mixed population of patients treated with Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) would exhibit reduced healthcare costs in long-term follow-up. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was employed in which data on pre- and post-treatment healthcare cost were compared for all ISTDP cases treated in a tertiary care service over a nine year period. Observe...

OBJECTIVE Little information exists regarding the economic burden related to inflammatory myopathies. Our objective was to estimate health services costs in a large, unselected, population-based sample of patients with inflammatory myopathies. METHODS We identified subjects with polymyositis and dermatomyositis from administrative healthcare databases (covering all beneficiaries, about 7.5 mi...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the attributable costs of multimorbidity and assess whether the association between the level of multimorbidity and health system costs varies by socio-demographic factors in young (<65 years) and older (≥65 years) adults living in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN A population-based, retrospective cohort study SETTING: The province of Ontario, Canada PARTICIPANTS: 6 639 089 Onta...

In the battle to control escalating health care costs, predictive models are increasingly employed to better allocate health care resources and to identify the “best” cases for preventive case management. In this investigation we predicted the top 0.5% most costly cases for year N+1, given a population in year N , with data for the period 1997-2001 taken from the MEDSTAT Marketscan Research Dat...

BACKGROUND Post-stroke healthcare consumption is strongly associated with a mental health diagnosis. This study aimed to identify stroke patients who utilised mental healthcare facilities, explored their mental healthcare consumption pre-stroke and post-stroke, and examined possible predictors of costs incurred by mental healthcare consumption post-stroke. METHODS Three databases were integra...