作者
Lili Wang, Lei Si, Fiona Cocker, Andrew J Palmer, Kristy Sanderson
发表日期
2018/2
来源
Applied health economics and health policy
卷号
16
页码范围
15-29
出版商
Springer International Publishing
简介
Objectives
The economic burden of multimorbidity is considerable. This review analyzed the methods of cost-of-illness (COI) studies and summarized the economic outcomes of multimorbidity.
Methods
A systematic review (2000–2016) was performed, which was registered with Prospero, reported according to PRISMA, and used a quality checklist adapted for COI studies. The inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed COI studies on multimorbidity, whereas the exclusion criterion was studies focusing on an index disease. Extracted data included the definition, measure, and prevalence of multimorbidity; the number of included health conditions; the age of study population; the variables used in the COI methodology; the percentage of multimorbidity vs. total costs; and the average costs per capita.
Results
Among the 26 …
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