Depression and costs of health care.
Psychosomatics
; 50(4): 392-401, 2009.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19687180
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
In spite of its global importance, the interaction between depression and chronic comorbid diseases remains incompletely understood with regard to prevalence, severity of disease, and potential causative factors mediating this interaction.OBJECTIVE:
The authors sought to compare overall medical costs in nondepressed and depressed individuals.METHOD:
Insurance claims for 618,780 patients were examined for total annual non-mental health cost of care in 11 chronic diseases. In each disease cohort, median annual non-mental health cost was calculated for individuals with and without depression.RESULTS:
Patients with depression had higher median per-patient annual non-mental health costs than patients without depression in all 11 diseases studied. There was a higher-than-random comorbidity between depression and all 11 chronic comorbid diseases.CONCLUSION:
Even when controlling for number of chronic comorbid diseases, depressed patients had significantly higher costs than non-depressed patients, in a magnitude consistent across 11 chronic comorbid diseases.
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Temas:
ECOS
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Aspectos_gerais
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Financiamentos_gastos
Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Custos de Cuidados de Saúde
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Depressão
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychosomatics
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos