Citation

Druss BG, Marcus SC, Olfson M, Pincus HA. Health Aff. (Hope) 2002; 21(4): 105-111.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, USA.

Comment In:

Health Aff (Millwood) 2003;.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12117121

Abstract

This study uses a nationally representative survey to identify the most expensive conditions in the United States and to examine the association between spending and disability. The most expensive conditions at a population level were ischemic heart disease and motor vehicle accidents; at the per capita level they were respiratory malignancies. There was not a significant association between rank order of treatment costs and disability; the conditions with the greatest disability relative to expenditures were mood disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and arthropathies. We use the findings to discuss the role for cost-of-illness and burden-of-disease estimates in setting priorities.

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