Spending on Children's Personal Health Care in the United States, 1996-2013.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care spending on children in the United States continues to rise, yet little is known about how this spending varies by condition, age and sex group, and type of care, nor how these patterns have changed over time.

Objective

To provide health care spending estimates for children and adolescents 19 years and younger in the United States from 1996 through 2013, disaggregated by condition, age and sex group, and type of care.

Evidence review

Health care spending estimates were extracted from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Disease Expenditure 2013 project database. This project, based on 183 sources of data and 2.9 billion patient records, disaggregated health care spending in the United States by condition, age and sex group, and type o

SUBMITTER: Bui AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546095 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature