Determinants of Medical Direct Costs of Care among Patients of a Memory Center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alzheimer's disease and related diseases (ADRD) are a major cause of health-related cost increase.

Objectives

This study aimed to estimate the real medical direct costs of care of patients followed at a memory center, and to investigate potential associations between patients' characteristics and costs.

Design

Cross-sectional analyses conducted on matched data between clinical data of a cohort of patients and the claims database of the French Primary Health Insurance Fund.

Setting

Memory center in France.

Participants

Patients attending a memory center with subjective cognitive complaint.

Measurements

Medical or nonmedical direct costs (transportation) reimbursed by the French health insurance during the one year after the first memory

SUBMITTER: Dauphinot V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12280804 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature