t In Italy the increasing incidence of chronic disease and multimorbidity are major challenges for health systems. When a patient suffers from more than one chronic condition, the conditions can interact causing a significant increase in patients’ care needs. Using healthcare administrative databases of Tuscany region to identify cohorts of chronic prevalent patients and their total direct healthcare expenses, in this paper we aim to study the economic burden of multiple chronic conditions and calculate the excess cost when comorbidities occur in order to assess how combinations of chronic conditions in adults affect total direct health expenditure.
Excess economic burden of multimorbidity: a population-based study in Italy.
Gaia Bertarelli
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2022-01-01
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t In Italy the increasing incidence of chronic disease and multimorbidity are major challenges for health systems. When a patient suffers from more than one chronic condition, the conditions can interact causing a significant increase in patients’ care needs. Using healthcare administrative databases of Tuscany region to identify cohorts of chronic prevalent patients and their total direct healthcare expenses, in this paper we aim to study the economic burden of multiple chronic conditions and calculate the excess cost when comorbidities occur in order to assess how combinations of chronic conditions in adults affect total direct health expenditure.
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