Rather, severity has multiple components including health-related quality of life, psychosocial factors, health care utilization behaviors, and burden of illness.
We do not have detailed information on the specific diseases the study subjects had at the time of investigation, reasons of hospitalization, types of insurance, cost for health service utilization and burdens from out-of-pocket payment.
Charalambous, LT, Premji, A, Tybout, C, Hunt, A, Cutshaw, D, Elsamadicy, AA, Yang, S, Xie, J, Giamberardino, C, Pagadala, P, Perfect, JR, and Lad, SP. "Prevalence, healthcare resource utilization and overall burden of fungal meningitis in the United States". Journal of Medical Microbiology 67, no. 2 (February 2018): 215-227.
15 This study investigates the demographics, disease characteristics, impact on HRQoL, work productivity, health care resource utilization, and cost burden of GAD across five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK).
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Earlier studies have focussed on prevalence, cost-utilization and burden.
We need to better understand the resources that patients draw upon as they respond to the demands of both burdens of illness and burdens of treatment, and the ways these resources interact with healthcare utilization.
Depression and anxiety may cause additional burden in headache sufferers with respect to productivity loss, quality of life, health care utilization, and emotional burden.
Emerging studies report on the success of Patient Blood Management programs in reducing transfusion utilization, reducing the burden of anemia in patients, and improving patient outcomes including shortened length of hospital stays, less frequency of complications and lower risk of mortality.
The condition is distressing and costly in terms of both health service utilization and economic burden to patients and their families [ 3, 4].
