Cost of Illness

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Compensation for Birth-Related Injury: No-Fault Programs Compared With Tort System" 
  • "I Could Do It in My Own Time and When I Really Needed It": Perceptions of Online Pain Coping Skills Training For People With Knee Osteoarthritis. 
  • 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: I. Methods and public health burden. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American College of Physicians, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • A catalog of dermatology utilities: a measure of the burden of skin diseases. 
  • A clinical decision and economic analysis model of cancer pain management. 
  • A comprehensive assessment of the cost of multiple sclerosis in the United States. 
  • A cost-effectiveness analysis of hepatitis B vaccine in predialysis patients. 
  • A framework for stimulating economic investments to prevent emerging diseases. 
  • A heavy burden on young minds: the global burden of mental and substance use disorders in children and youth. 
  • A heavy burden: the cardiovascular health consequences of having a family member incarcerated. 
  • A multinational review of recent trends and reports in dementia caregiver burden. 
  • A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation. 
  • A phenomenological investigation of women with Tourette or other chronic tic disorders. 
  • A qualitative descriptive study of the work of adherence to a chronic heart failure regimen: patient and physician perspectives. 
  • A qualitative study of quality of life domains and subdomains relevant to patients with spondyloarthritis. 
  • A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults. 
  • Access to and affordability of healthcare for TB patients in China: issues and challenges. 
  • Access to care: eye care provider workforce considerations in 2020. 
  • Access to eye care: response of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and its members to societal needs now and in the future. 
  • Adenocarcinoma of the prostate: an expensive way to die. 
  • Adequacy of antidepressant treatment by psychiatric residents: the antidepressant treatment history form as a possible assessment tool. 
  • Ageing, social class and common mental disorders: longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland. 
  • Allergic rhinitis--history and presentation. 
  • Alternative Approaches to Valuing Intangible Health Losses: The Evidence for Multiple Sclerosis 
  • Alzheimer's disease and the family caregiver: the cost and who pays? 
  • An assessment of the health and economic burdens of glaucoma. 
  • An examination of Alzheimer's disease case definitions using Medicare claims and survey data. 
  • Anemia and its impact on function in nursing home residents: what do we know? 
  • Ankle-brachial index in patients with intermittent claudication is a poor indicator of patient-centered and clinician-based evaluations of functional status. 
  • Annual direct and indirect health care costs of chronic idiopathic urticaria: a cost analysis of 50 nonimmunosuppressed patients. 
  • Antifungal prophylaxis: to prevent or not. 
  • Application of assessing care of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicators to patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. 
  • Are free anti-tuberculosis drugs enough? An empirical study from three cities in China. 
  • Artificial intelligence and the future of psychiatry: Insights from a global physician survey. 
  • Assessing the clinical and economic burden of coronary artery disease: 1986-1998. 
  • Assessment of Quality of Life in Chronic Pruritus: Relationship Between ItchyQoL and Dermatological Life Quality Index in 1,150 Patients. 
  • Association Between Gastrointestinal Events and Health Care Resource Utilization Among Patients with Osteoporosis: Analysis of a U.S. Managed Care Population. 
  • Association between breast cancer and allostatic load by race: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2008. 
  • Association between myocardial substrate, implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks and mortality in MADIT-CRT. 
  • Association between prodromal pain and the severity of acute herpes zoster and utilization of health care resources. 
  • Association of Financial Strain With Symptom Burden and Quality of Life for Patients With Lung or Colorectal Cancer. 
  • Association of peripheral artery disease with life-space mobility restriction and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects. 
  • Best Solutions for Perineal and Pressure Sore Reconstruction. 
  • Better Palliative Care for All: Improving the Lived Experience With Cancer. 
  • Beyond cost-effectiveness: A five-step framework for appraising the value of health technologies in Asia-Pacific. 
  • Beyond the First Wave: Consequences of COVID-19 on High-Risk Infants and Families. 
  • Bridging the gap between financial distress and available resources for patients with cancer: a qualitative study. 
  • Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis. 
  • Burden and Outcomes of Neonatal Surgery in Uganda: Results of a Five-Year Prospective Study. 
  • Burden and well-being among a diverse sample of cancer, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caregivers. 
  • Burden of Hearing Loss on Communication Partners and Its Influence on Pursuit of Hearing Evaluation. 
  • Burden of Illness in Adults With Hypophosphatasia: Data From the Global Hypophosphatasia Patient Registry. 
  • Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the US From 1990-2017: A Global Burden of Disease Study. 
  • Burden of Persistent Vomiting With Cannabis Use Disorder: Report From 55,549 Hospitalizations in the United States. 
  • Burden of Surgical Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Burden of disease in adult patients with hypophosphatasia: Results from two patient-reported surveys. 
  • Burden of illness and satisfaction with care among patients with headache seen in a primary care setting. 
  • Burden of illness and treatment patterns among patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma in the US healthcare setting. 
  • Burden of influenza-related hospitalizations among children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Burden of informal care in stroke survivors and its determinants: a prospective observational study in an Asian setting. 
  • Burden of medical co-morbidities and benefit from surgical revascularization in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Burden of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Canada, 2019-2030: a modelling study. 
  • Burden of pancreatic cancer and disease progression: economic analysis in the US. 
  • Burden, pathology, and costs of malaria in pregnancy: new developments for an old problem. 
  • COVID-19 and Parent-Child Psychological Well-being. 
  • Can rural health insurance improve equity in health care utilization? A comparison between China and Vietnam. 
  • Canadian study of health and aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia. 
  • Cancer outcomes research. 
  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment. 
  • Caregiver Health-Related Quality of Life, Burden, and Patient Outcomes in Ambulatory Advanced Heart Failure: A Report From REVIVAL. 
  • Caregiver burden and psychological distress in partners of veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiver burden by treatment and clinical characteristics of patients with glioblastoma. 
  • Caregiver burden in partners of Vietnam War veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiver experience during advanced chronic illness and last year of life. 
  • Caregiver strain and youth suicide attempt: Are they related? 
  • Caregiver-Delivered Stroke Rehabilitation in Rural China. 
  • Caregiver-recipient closeness and symptom progression in Alzheimer disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study. 
  • Caregivers' role in managing hereditary angioedema and perceptions of treatment-related burden. 
  • Carpal tunnel release. A prospective, randomized assessment of open and endoscopic methods. 
  • Cervical Versus Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformities: A Comparison of Baseline Quality-of-Life Burden. 
  • Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Childhood cancer survivors, late effects, and a new model for understanding survivorship. 
  • Chronic care management for the elderly: an opportunity for gerontological nurse practitioners. 
  • Chronic critical illness. 
  • Chronic hepatitis C: an age wave of disease burden. 
  • Chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk: epidemiology, mechanisms, and prevention. 
  • Clinical Characteristics and Factors Associated With Disability and Impaired Quality of Life in Children With Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: Results From the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Closing the Loop in Adults, Children and Adolescents With Suboptimally Controlled Type 1 Diabetes Under Free Living Conditions: A Psychosocial Substudy. 
  • Colorectal cancer: national and international perspective on the burden of disease and public health impact. 
  • Comorbidity burden and nonclinical factors associated with sinonasal cancer all-cause mortality. 
  • Comparing cost-of-illness estimates from alternative approaches: an application to diabetes. 
  • Comparison of cefuroxime with or without intranasal fluticasone for the treatment of rhinosinusitis. The CAFFS Trial: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Comparison of the Financial Burden of Survivors of Head and Neck Cancer With Other Cancer Survivors. 
  • Components and correlates of family burden in schizophrenia. 
  • Consensus statement on posttraumatic stress disorder from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Consensus statement on the primary care management of depression from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Conservation efforts may increase malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon. 
  • Contribution of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease to different domains of caregiver burden. 
  • Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiry. 
  • Cost effectiveness analysis of early zidovudine treatment of HIV infected patients. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of Intravitreous Ranibizumab Compared With Panretinal Photocoagulation for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: Secondary Analysis From a Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of revascularization strategies: the ASCERT study. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of transesophageal echocardiography to determine the duration of therapy for intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Costs associated with health care-associated infections in cardiac surgery. 
  • Costs of smoking: a focus on maternal, childhood, and other short-run costs. 
  • Costs of the metabolic syndrome in elderly individuals: findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Costs of vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Cumulative Burden of Depression and All-Cause Mortality in Women Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 
  • Deciding to institutionalize: why do family members cease caregiving at home? 
  • Decreasing patient cost and travel time through pediatric rheumatology telemedicine visits. 
  • Decreasing the morbidity, mortality, and cost of stroke through awareness and prevention. 
  • Defining Clinically Important Difference in the Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality-of-Life Score. 
  • Defining the Burden of Osteoarthritis in Population-Based Surveys. 
  • Defining the human and health care costs of chronic venous insufficiency. 
  • Dementia and cancer: a comparison of spouse caregivers. 
  • Dementia in relation to family caregiver involvement and burden in long-term care. 
  • Demographic and illness-related variables associated with HIV-related fatigue. 
  • Depression and physical disability outcomes in depressed medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Depression in primary caregivers of patients listed for liver or kidney transplantation. 
  • Depressive symptoms among informal caregivers of older adults: insights from the Singapore Survey on Informal Caregiving. 
  • Development, reliability and validation of a neurogenic bowel dysfunction score in pediatric patients with spina bifida. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Differences between patients with cardiovascular disease and cancer referred for palliative care. 
  • Direct costs and patterns of injuries among residential carpenters, 1995-2000. 
  • Disability Weights for Pediatric Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review and Analysis. 
  • Disabling back injuries in nursing personnel. 
  • Disease burden of ageing, sex and regional disparities and health resources allocation: a longitudinal analysis of 31 provinces in Mainland China. 
  • Disparities in Cardiovascular Research Output and Disease Outcomes among High-, Middle- and Low-Income Countries - An Analysis of Global Cardiovascular Publications over the Last Decade (2008-2017). 
  • Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures? 
  • Does Cancer Treatment-Related Financial Distress Worsen Over Time? 
  • Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregivers. 
  • Does support from foreign domestic workers decrease the negative impact of informal caregiving? Results from Singapore survey on informal caregiving. 
  • Does treatment intensity matter in superficial bladder cancer? Consensus, clinical practice, and confounding. 
  • Down Syndrome-Associated Arthritis Cohort in the New Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry: Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Outcomes. 
  • Economic Burden of Dengue Virus Infection at the Household Level Among Residents of Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Economic analysis of influenza vaccination and antiviral treatment for healthy working adults. 
  • Economic burden for informal caregivers of lung and colorectal cancer patients. 
  • Economic burden of asthma in Singapore. 
  • Economic burden of congenital athymia in the United States for patients receiving supportive care during the first 3 years of life. 
  • Economic burden of heart failure in the elderly. 
  • Economic burden of herpes zoster among skilled nursing facility residents in the United States. 
  • Economic causes and consequences of obesity. 
  • Economic evaluation of direct-acting antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Economic evaluation of the HF-ACTION (Heart Failure: A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training) randomized controlled trial: an exercise training study of patients with chronic heart failure. 
  • Economic impact of human milk on medical charges of extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Economic outcomes of breast cancer survivorship: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Economic winners and losers after introduction of an effective new therapy depend on the type of payment system. 
  • Economics and cost-effectiveness in evaluating the value of cardiovascular therapies. Fundamentals of economic analysis. 
  • Economics and cost-effectiveness in evaluating the value of cardiovascular therapies. Use of abciximab: comparative economic data. 
  • Economics of low-molecular weight heparins. 
  • Editorial: How epidemiology helps. 
  • Effects of coronary angioplasty, coronary bypass surgery, and medical therapy on employment in patients with coronary artery disease. A prospective comparison study. 
  • Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an outcall program to reduce carer burden and depression among carers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Emergency department visits with facial fractures among children and adolescents: an analysis of profile and predictors of causes of injuries. 
  • Emergency general surgery: definition and estimated burden of disease. 
  • Engaging the Entire Care Cascade in Western Kenya: A Model to Achieve the Cardiovascular Disease Secondary Prevention Roadmap Goals. 
  • Epidemiologic and economic consequences of the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. 
  • Epidemiology and Impact of Campylobacter Infection in Children in 8 Low-Resource Settings: Results From the MAL-ED Study. 
  • Epidemiology of HIV in the USA: epidemic burden, inequities, contexts, and responses. 
  • Eradicating the Burden of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease by Lowering Apolipoprotein B Lipoproteins Earlier in Life. 
  • Estimates of state-level health-care expenditures associated with disability. 
  • Estimating the nationwide, hospital based economic impact of pediatric urolithiasis. 
  • Estimating utility values for vesicoureteral reflux in the general public using an online tool. 
  • Estimation of economic costs associated with transfusion dependence in adults with MDS. 
  • Evaluating Teach One Reach One-An STI/HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention to Enhance Adult-Youth Communication About Sex and Reduce the Burden of HIV/STI. 
  • Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Program in a Rural Palliative Care Population: TapCloud for Palliative Care. 
  • Exploring the impact of chronic tic disorders on youth: results from the Tourette Syndrome Impact Survey. 
  • Factors associated with caregiver burden among caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Sri Lanka. 
  • Factors associated with chronic depressive episodes: a preliminary report from the STAR-D project. 
  • Factors influencing pursuit of hearing evaluation: Enhancing the health belief model with perceived burden from hearing loss on communication partners. 
  • Fear of Movement and Associated Factors Among Adults With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis. 
  • Feedbacks from human health to household reliance on natural resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Financial Burden in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Financial Hardship From Medical Bills Among Nonelderly U.S. Adults With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Financial Toxicity and Equitable Access to Clinical Trials. 
  • Financial Toxicity: A Common but Rarely Discussed Treatment Side Effect. 
  • Financial burden among older, long-term cancer survivors: Results from the LILAC study. 
  • Financial burden of healthcare for cancer patients with social medical insurance: a multi-centered study in urban China. 
  • Financial implications of coverage for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • Fracture Reduction Affects Medicare Economics (FRAME): impact of increased osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment. 
  • From the Johns Hopkins Baby to Baby Miller: what have we learned from four decades of reflection on neonatal cases? 
  • Functional disability, disability transitions, and depressive symptoms in late life. 
  • Gamma Gap: A Point-of-Care Test That Correlates With Disease Burden and Treatment Response in Multiple Myeloma. 
  • Genetic risk factors for perception of symptoms in GERD: an observational cohort study. 
  • Geographic variation and trends in carotid imaging among medicare beneficiaries, 2001 to 2006. 
  • German version of ItchyQoL: validation and initial clinical findings. 
  • Glaucoma in the United States and europe: predicting costs and surgical rates based upon stage of disease. 
  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study. 
  • Global Burden of Head and Neck Cancer: Economic Consequences, Health, and the Role of Surgery. 
  • Global Hearing Loss Prevention. 
  • Global Patterns in Health Burden of Uncorrected Refractive Error. 
  • Global and National Burden of Diseases and Injuries Among Children and Adolescents Between 1990 and 2013: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease 2013 Study. 
  • Global and regional burden of infective endocarditis, 1990-2010: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees. 
  • Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study. 
  • Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Global, Regional, and National Prevalence, Incidence, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for Oral Conditions for 195 Countries, 1990-2015: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors. 
  • Global, regional, and national burden of aortic aneurysm, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national burden of brain and other CNS cancer, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Health burden associated with visual impairment in Singapore: the Singapore epidemiology of eye disease study. 
  • Health care utilization and expenditure changes associated with bariatric surgery. 
  • Health policy in stroke: translating what we know into what we do. 
  • Health, nutrition and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life of Hypertension Patients: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Chongqing, China. 
  • High economic burden of caring for patients with suspected extraesophageal reflux. 
  • Higher symptom burden is associated with lower function in women taking adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer. 
  • Highlights from the report of the working group on "Core measures of the burden of skin diseases". 
  • How big of a problem is obesity? 
  • How effectively can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme reduce catastrophic health expenditure for the poor and non-poor in rural China? 
  • How much can be gained by more systematic prevention of stroke? 
  • How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India. 
  • Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV. 
  • Hypnotics should be considered for the initial treatment of chronic insomnia. Pro. 
  • Identifying cancer patients who alter care or lifestyle due to treatment-related financial distress. 
  • Impact of TBI on caregivers of veterans with TBI: Burden and interventions. 
  • Impact of a chemoresponse assay on treatment costs for recurrent ovarian cancer. 
  • Impact of a managed-Medicare physical activity benefit on health care utilization and costs in older adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of cancer on health-related quality of life of older Americans. 
  • Impact of noncommunicable diseases on direct medical costs and worker productivity, Saudi Arabia. 
  • Impact of symptom burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) on esophageal motor diagnoses. 
  • Improvements in health-related quality of life over 3 years with liraglutide 3.0 mg compared with placebo in participants with overweight or obesity. 
  • Incidence and Risk of Second Primary Malignant Neoplasm After a First Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. 
  • Incidence and lifetime costs of injuries in the United States. 
  • Indirect costs of obesity: a review of the current literature. 
  • Individual and aggregate years-of-life-lost associated with overweight and obesity. 
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Can Adversely Impact Domains of Sexual Function Such as Satisfaction with Sex Life. 
  • Informal care and caregiver's health. 
  • Inpatient burden of juvenile dermatomyositis among children in the United States. 
  • International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: Olfaction. 
  • International prevalence and risk factors evaluation for drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia. 
  • Introduction: Definitions, measurements, and management in insomnia. 
  • ItchyQoL bands: pilot clinical interpretation of scores. 
  • Lack of association between patients' measured burden of disease and risk for hospital readmission. 
  • Long-term cumulative depressive symptom burden and risk of cognitive decline and dementia among very old women. 
  • Long-term health and social function in adult survivors of paediatric astrocytoma: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Long-term persistence of zoster vaccine efficacy. 
  • Longitudinal evaluation of economic and physical impact of Parkinson's disease. 
  • Maintenance phase efficacy of sertraline for chronic depression: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Major congenital malformations among neonatal referrals to a Nigerian university hospital. 
  • Management of depression in patients with coronary heart disease: association, mechanisms, and treatment implications for depressed cardiac patients. 
  • Mapping expanded prostate cancer index composite to EQ5D utilities to inform economic evaluations in prostate cancer: Secondary analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415. 
  • Material, behavioral, and psychological financial hardship among survivors of childhood cancer in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Measuring psychosocial risk in families caring for a child with cancer: the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT2.0). 
  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Medical and Obstetric Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Medical and economic implications of prolonged mechanical ventilation and expedited post-acute care. 
  • Medical comorbidity in a bipolar outpatient clinical population. 
  • Medical error. The personal cost. 
  • Melanoma quality of life: pilot study using utility measurements. 
  • Mindfulness meditation alleviates fibromyalgia symptoms in women: results of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) cluster groups among chronically ill patients: relationship to illness adjustment and treatment outcome. 
  • Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study. 
  • Modeling the Scale-up of Surgical Services for Children with Surgically Treatable Congenital Conditions in Somaliland. 
  • Morbidity and mortality due to shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016. 
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes. 
  • National Trends in the Burden of Atrial Fibrillation During Hospital Admissions for Heart Failure. 
  • National medical spending attributable to overweight and obesity: how much, and who's paying? 
  • Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: strategic priorities. 
  • Obesity and its association with comorbidities and hospital charges among patients hospitalized for dental conditions. 
  • Obesity and long-term clinical and economic outcomes in coronary artery disease patients. 
  • Objective burden, resources, and other stressors among informal cancer caregivers: a hidden quality issue? 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All: Disease Profiles of Serious Illness Patients Receiving Specialty Palliative Care. 
  • Optimizing veteran-centered prostate cancer survivorship care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Orthopedic disease burden in adult patients with symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: results from a prospective multicenter study. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Costs, Financial Distress, and Underinsurance in Cancer Care. 
  • Outcome based comparison of surgical approaches for pediatric pyeloplasty: dorsal lumbar versus flank incision. 
  • Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden. 
  • Pain catastrophizing in patients with noncardiac chest pain: relationships with pain, anxiety, and disability. 
  • Pain experiences among those living with hidradenitis suppurativa: a qualitative study. 
  • Painful physical symptoms and treatment outcome in major depressive disorder: a STAR*D (Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression) report. 
  • Parent Perspectives on Addressing Emotional Health for Children and Young Adults With Juvenile Myositis. 
  • Parenting stress in mothers and fathers of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders: associations with child characteristics. 
  • Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Payment for obesity services: examples and recommendations for stage 3 comprehensive multidisciplinary intervention programs for children and adolescents. 
  • Pediatricians' preferences for infant meningococcal vaccination. 
  • PedsQL eosinophilic esophagitis module: feasibility, reliability, and validity. 
  • Perceived burden and family functioning among informal caregivers of individuals living with schizophrenia in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Perceived family impact of preschool anxiety disorders. 
  • Persistence of the efficacy of zoster vaccine in the shingles prevention study and the short-term persistence substudy. 
  • Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups. 
  • Perspectives on the Costs of Cancer Care: A Survey of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. 
  • Population-based assessment of cancer survivors' financial burden and quality of life: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Predicting costs among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Predicting the cost of illness: a comparison of alternative models applied to stroke. 
  • Predictors of Hospitalization, Length of Stay, and Cost of Care Among Adults With Dermatomyositis in the United States. 
  • Preparedness planning before mechanical circulatory support: a "how-to" guide for palliative medicine clinicians. 
  • Prevalence and economic burden of depression and anxiety symptoms among Singaporean adults: results from a 2022 web panel. 
  • Prevalence, correlates, and course of minor depression and major depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Prevalence, healthcare resource utilization and overall burden of fungal meningitis in the United States. 
  • Program preferences to reduce stress in caregivers of patients with brain tumors. 
  • Projection of Eye Disease Burden in Singapore. 
  • Prophylaxis after sexual exposure to HIV. 
  • Prophylaxis after sexual exposure to HIV. 
  • Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine. 
  • Psychiatry's Opportunity to Prevent the Rising Burden of Age-Related Disease. 
  • Psychological adjustment of adults with sickle cell anemia: stability over 20 months, correlates, and predictors. 
  • Psychological adjustment of mothers of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease: the role of stress, coping methods, and family functioning. 
  • Psychological and Financial Distress Management in Adults With Acute Leukemia. 
  • Psychophysiological mediators of caregiver stress and differential cognitive decline. 
  • Psychosocial Burden of Childhood Sickle Cell Disease on Caregivers in Kenya. 
  • Psychosocial aspects of active surveillance. 
  • Quantifying and Classifying Physical Resilience Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Reducing bias in cancer research: application of propensity score matching. 
  • Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers. 
  • Reducing the global cancer burden among young adults. 
  • Relation of dyspnea severity on admission for acute heart failure with outcomes and costs. 
  • Reliability of self-reported willingness-to-pay and annual income in patients treated for toenail onychomycosis. 
  • Resource Use in the Last Year of Life Among Patients Who Died With Versus of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Resource use and costs associated with diabetic macular edema in elderly persons. 
  • Resource use and costs of branch and central retinal vein occlusion in the elderly. 
  • Responsiveness and minimally important difference of SF-6D and EQ-5D utility scores for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Responsiveness to Change in PROMIS(®) Measures among Children with Asthma: A Report from the PROMIS(®) Pediatric Asthma Study. 
  • Results of Expert Meetings: Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease. Introduction: Cardiologists should target obesity. 
  • Risk reconsidered: targets of violence in the social networks of people with serious psychiatric disorders. 
  • Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. 
  • Same protocol, different continents, different patients: should we continue to conduct global heart failure trials? 
  • Self-rated global measure of the frequency, intensity, and burden of side effects. 
  • Self-reported financial burden and satisfaction with care among patients with cancer. 
  • Sex Differences in Quality of Life and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Insights From the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • Simulating the impact of long-term care policy on family eldercare hours. 
  • Social and financial barriers may contribute to a "hidden mortality" in Uganda for children with congenital anomalies. 
  • Strategic planning to reduce the burden of stroke among veterans: using simulation modeling to inform decision making. 
  • Surgery for hip fracture yields societal benefits that exceed the direct medical costs. 
  • Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 
  • Symptom Burden, Perceived Control, and Quality of Life Among Patients Living With Multiple Myeloma. 
  • Symptom burden of haematological malignancies as death approaches in a community palliative care service: a retrospective cohort study of a consecutive case series. 
  • Systematic Changes to Help Parentsof Medically Complex Infants Manage Medical Expenses. 
  • Systems science and childhood obesity: a systematic review and new directions. 
  • Temporal Trends in Prevalence and Prognostic Implications of Comorbidities Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: The ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cost-of-Care Conversations. 
  • The Annual Direct and Indirect Health Care Costs for Patients with Chronic Pruritus and their Determining Factors. 
  • The Burden of Burnout. 
  • The Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Among US States, 1990-2016. 
  • The Burden of Childhood Atopic Dermatitis in the Primary Care Setting: A Report from the Meta-LARC Consortium. 
  • The Growing-and Now Alarming-Burden of Hearing Loss Worldwide. 
  • The Public Health Burden of Lymphatic Malformations in Children: National Estimates in the United States, 2000-2009. 
  • The STAR*D Project results: a comprehensive review of findings. 
  • The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States. 
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  • The economic burden of major adult visual disorders in the United States. 
  • The economic burden of overweight and obesity in Saudi Arabia. 
  • The economic burden of physical inactivity: a global analysis of major non-communicable diseases. 
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  • The economics of heart failure. 
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  • The global burden of typhoid fever. 
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  • The growing burden of diabetes mellitus in the US elderly population. 
  • The health and economic burden of genital warts in a set of private health plans in the United States. 
  • The health burden and economic costs of cutaneous melanoma mortality by race/ethnicity-United States, 2000 to 2006. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
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  • The impact of anemia on nursing home residents. 
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  • Valuation of Child Behavioral Problems from the Perspective of US Adults. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Fekrat, Sharon, Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Distinguished Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society