This is particularly urgent now, since the FCC is about to try to figure out how to regulate rates in situations where there is little competition and no cost data.
Of 6,416 patients with baseline data, 1,161 were excluded due to death and no cost data (n = 668), or missing data and a priori exclusion criteria (n = 493).
Compared with patients excluded due to death and no cost data, those included in analyses were more likely to be younger, married, have health insurance, higher incomes, stroke due to lacunar infarction, longer LOS, and to be managed in large Level 3 hospitals.
No cost data were available.
However, if no cost data are available, even highly effective therapies can be easily overlooked.
However, the data give a basic idea of the dimensions of the burden in Germany where no cost data existed until now.
Concerning the lifetime costs of cerebral palsy, no cost data were available for the costs of care for individuals with mild and moderate cerebral palsy.
For conditions where no cost data was available in Italy, English costs [ 15] were adjusted by the mean ratio between Italian and English costs for all other conditions.
Firstly, one-year outcome analysis is based on self-reported information alone, and there is no systematic information from direct patient observation, no cost data, and only limited information from medical records available for this analysis.
Last observation carried forward (LOCF) method was used to impute the 12-month outcome data for 26 individuals who did not complete the 12-month assessment and no cost data was imputed.
