Some literature considered morbidities that occurred within 42 days after giving birth, others included maternal problems up to 24 weeks postpartum, and some studies even examined maternal morbidities occurring anytime within the whole year after [ 8, 21, 22].
There is also no information, if there may be differences in the proportion of double counting considering morbidity, age, or sex.
However, one interviewee did not consider morbidity to be a very important outcome as it "only reflects reduction in contraction of the disease" (sic).
We outline three reasons why the current framework of compression of morbidity should be broadened to also consider morbidity to be present even when there are no overtly measurable FL/D.
When considering morbidity of ICU patients the outcome is a dichotomous variable which can be binarized as 1 and 0 for morbidity and normal clinical course, respectively (binary LR).
Yet, in our study, when considering morbidity burden, differences in utilization of PHC services were not significantly higher for women and in some groups even higher for men, as in the group of middle-aged very ill patients.
However, when one considers morbidity, mortality, and costs of emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to hypoglycemia, use of sulfonylureas is more expensive than the other classes of medications.
Considering morbidity of severe hypoglycemia and the low absolute risk of lactic acidosis associated with metformin use, clinicians must carefully ensure that risks outweigh benefits when withholding metformin from patients with type 2 diabetes.
Overall, our findings suggest an important impact of PM10 exposure on mortality, and also that different scenarios of PM10 reduction would have had a substantial beneficial effect, especially considering that we did not consider morbidity attributable to air pollution, which could be considerable.
This study fills a gap in the cost-effectiveness literature for the use of GHT in adults with GHD, and suggests that it is a cost-effective therapy in Sweden when considering morbidity and mortality associated with GHD and the impact on QoL.
