Annual Cost of Care of Parkinson's Disease and Its Determinants in North India - A Cost of Illness Study with Patient Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a slowly progressive and disabling disorder, so the cost of illness may change with time. We aimed this study to know the annual cost of care of PD in India.

Methods

After ethics approval, a prospective cohort study was conducted at the movement disorder clinic of tertiary care hospital for 2 years (2014-2016). The outcomes were a description of the total annual direct cost of Parkinson's disease including health care as well as non-health care cost. We also did correlation analysis to know the determinants of the total cost.

Results

A total of 200 consecutive patients of PD with 141 (70.50%) males and 59 (29.50%) females with a mean age of 56.84 ± 10.51 years were enrolled. The annual Median Direct cost of care was INR 27,315.0

SUBMITTER: Ola V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540931 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature