Direct healthcare expenditure on Alzheimer's disease from healthcare providers' perspective in Malaysia: a micro-costing approach.

ABSTRACT: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an important geriatric disease that creates challenges in health policy planning. There is no previous attempt to quantify the actual direct healthcare cost of AD among older adults in Malaysia. This retrospective observational study with bottom-up micro-costing approach aimed to evaluate the direct healthcare expenditure on AD along with its potential predictors from healthcare providers' perspective, conducted across six tertiary hospitals in Malaysia. AD patients aged 65 and above who received AD treatment between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2021 were included. Direct healthcare cost (DHC) of AD was estimated by extracting one-year follow-up information from patient medical records. As a result, 333 AD patients were included in the study. The mean DHC of A

SUBMITTER: Ong SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324753 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature