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Cost of stroke: a controlled national study evaluating societal effects on patients and their partners

Authors: Poul Jennum, Helle K. Iversen, Rikke Ibsen, Jakob Kjellberg

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Background

To estimate the direct and indirect costs of stroke in patients and their partners.

Description

Direct and indirect costs were calculated using records from the Danish National Patient Registry from 93,047 ischemic, 26,012 hemorrhagic and 128,824 unspecified stroke patients and compared with 364,433, 103,741 and 500,490 matched controls, respectively.

Results

Independent of age and gender, stroke patients had significantly higher rates of mortality, health-related contacts, medication use and lower employment, lower income and higher social-transfer payments than controls. The attributable cost of direct net health care costs after the stroke (general practitioner services, hospital services, and medication) and indirect costs (loss of labor market income) were €10,720, €8,205 and €7,377 for patients, and €989, €1,544 and €1.645 for their partners, over and above that of controls for hemorrhagic, ischemic and unspecified stroke, respectively. The negative social- and health-related status could be identified up to eleven years before the first diagnosis.

Conclusion

Stroke has significant mortality, morbidity and socioeconomic consequences for patients, their partners and society.
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Metadata
Title
Cost of stroke: a controlled national study evaluating societal effects on patients and their partners
Authors
Poul Jennum
Helle K. Iversen
Rikke Ibsen
Jakob Kjellberg
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Health Services Research / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1100-0

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