BACKGROUND The literature offers competing estimates of disease costs, with each study having its own data and methods. In 2007, the Dutch Center for Public Health Forecasting of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment provided guidelines that can be used to set up cost-of-illness (COI) studies, emphasising that most COI analyses have trouble accounting for comorbidity in t...

Median Cost Analysis Associated with Recurrent Episodic Illnesses in Presence of Terminal Events RAJESHWARI SUNDARAM ∗ , LING MA, and SUBHASHIS GHOSHAL Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS, Rockville, Maryland 20852, U.S.A. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, ...

background: urinary tract infections (utis) are one of the most important bacterial infections among children throughout the world. the study aimed to estimate the cost of hospitalization associated with pediatric utis in kermanshah province for the years of 2013 and 2014. methods and materials: this was a cross sectional and descriptive study. the study subjects included all those aged 20 year...

CONTEXT Inner-city high-risk infants often receive limited and fragmented care, a problem that may increase serious illness. OBJECTIVE To assess whether access to comprehensive care in a follow-up clinic is cost-effective in reducing life-threatening illnesses among high-risk, inner-city infants. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 887 very-low-birth-we...

OBJECTIVES The main objective of this study was to derive cost estimates of five major foodborne illnesses (campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), yersiniosis and shigellosis) in Sweden. These estimates provide a necessary contribution to perform future cost-benefit analyses aimed at reducing the burden of foodborne disease. A secondary aim was to obtain e...

a psychiatric survey has been carried out in a solitary small village located in the fringes of central desert of iran. out of 106 individuals of 15 years old and over, selected randomly, 57 (53.8%) were found to be suffering from psychiatryic disturbances 21 (41.2%) of them were males and 36 (65.5%) were females. depressive illnesses were found to be the most frequntfy encontered disorder. the...