RVGE imposes a heavy economic burden by incurring not only direct (consultation, emergency, hospitalization, medication) costs, but also indirect costs (parent work days lost, childcare, etc....) [ 3, 9, 10].
Table 7 shows that the Migraine Disability Assessment score was significantly higher for GAD patients with primary headaches than for controls with primary headaches (29.1 ± 68.4 vs. 2.1 ± 0.2; P = 0.019), and that GAD patients more often made use of health care services for medical consultations, emergencies or examinations (12.5 ± 8.1 vs. 2.4 ± 2.6 visits/year; P < 0.001).
The main outcome measures were health services utilization indicators constructed from OHIP data within 3 months postabortion from office consultations, emergency room consultations, and hospital admissions.
Also in European countries CM participants had higher level of disability and had more provider neurological consultations, emergency department/hospital consultations and diagnostic investigations; the total mean medical costs were about three times higher for CM than EM.
During the follow-up the number of relapses, inpatient admissions, outpatient consultations, emergency rooms consultations and suicide attempts will be registered.
This further leads to an increased number of required medical consultations, emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations [ 4], with the consequent increase of costs [ 5, 6].
Medical consultations, emergency room visits and hospitalizations during the study were reported by physicians and patients by means of case report forms (CRFs) and survey forms, respectively.
Resource utilization specific to GERD was evaluated in terms of medication use, medical consultations, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and tests and procedures during the study.
It includes diagnoses made for outpatients seen in office or clinic consultations, emergency room visits, and diagnoses recorded for hospital inpatients, autopsy examinations or on death certificates.
If there was an injury reviewers determined if the injury resulted in disability, death or increased use of healthcare services (eg, intensified or prolonged HC, additional treatment, medical consultations, emergency room visit, hospital admission).
