Excess weight is associated with increased total healthcare costs, but it is less well known
how the associations between excess weight and costs vary across different types of …

Obesity prevention provides a major opportunity to improve population health. As health
improvements usually require additional and scarce resources, novel health technologies …

Rising prevalence of obesity is a worldwide health concern because excess weight gain
within populations forecasts an increased burden from several diseases, most notably …

Abstract Cost-of-illness (COI) studies aim to assess the economic burden of health problems
on the population overall, and they are conducted for an ever widening range of health …

Aims: This study aimed to evaluate all-cause economic outcomes, healthcare resource
utilization (HRU), and costs in patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and …

Most medical cost-effectiveness analyses include future costs only for related illnesses, but
this approach is controversial. This paper demonstrates that cost-effectiveness analysis is …

Objectives: In 2000, the first “Dutch Manual for Costing: Methods and Reference Prices for
Economic Evaluations in Healthcare” was published, followed by an updated version in …

BACKGROUND: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) affected an estimated 365,000
persons in the United States in 2017. Despite a nationally decreasing trend of CDI cases …

Introduction Although fortification of food with folic acid has been calculated to be cost
saving in the US, updated estimates are needed. This analysis calculates new estimates …

Background There is little systematic assessment of how total health expenditure is
distributed across diseases and comorbidities. The objective of this study was to use …