A cost-of-illness study of Behcet syndrome in Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims at evaluating the cost-of-illness (COI) of patients diagnosed with Behcet's syndrome (BS) in Italy, trying to depict the impact of different costs' components to the overall economic burden and analysing the variability of costs according to years since diagnosis and age at first symptoms.

Methods

With a cross-sectional evaluation, we surveyed a large sample of BS patients in Italy assessing several dimensions related to BS, also including fact related to the use of health resources utilization, formal and informal care, and productivity losses. Overall costs, direct health, direct non-health, and indirect costs were thus estimated per patient/year considering a Societal perspective and the impact of years since diagnosis, age at first symptoms on c

SUBMITTER: Lorenzoni V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10973046 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature