Α Cost of Illness Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Greece
| Autor: | Konstantinos Athanasakis, Chounta A, Sidiropoulos O, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Reppas L, Pliarchopoulou F, Filippiadis D, Brountzos E, Foukas P, Kyriopoulos J |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Hepatitis B virus
medicine.medical_specialty biology business.industry Medical record Euros Disease Hepatology Direct cost University hospital medicine.disease_cause biology.organism_classification Virology Internal medicine Family medicine Cost of illness Medicine business health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Gastroenterology, Pancreatology & Liver Disorders. 4:1-3 |
| ISSN: | 2374-815X |
| DOI: | 10.15226/2374-815x/4/5/00198 |
| Popis: | Background/Objective: Although often called a “silent disease”, HBV entails a significant disease and financial burden for the health system. An attempt to provide detailed estimates of the direct cost of this – rather neglected – disease in Greece comprised the objective of this study. Methods: The medical records of 254 patients diagnosed with HBV and monitored in the Hepatology Unit of the ‘Attikon’ university hospital provided the basis for the analysis. Detailed resource use data (physician visits, medications, labwork, and hospitalizations) were derived from the patients’ records for a retrospective 12month period, before their most recent visit to the clinic. Calculations followed a third-party payer perspective, according to official prices and tariffs, and are expressed in year 2015 Euros. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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