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The costs for perso...
The costs for persons sick-listed more than one month because of low back or neck problems. A two-year prospective study of Swedish patients
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- Hansson, Elisabeth K, 1954 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för de kirurgiska disciplinerna, Avdelningen för ortopedi,Institute of Surgical Sciences, Department of Orthopaedics
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- Hansson, Tommy H., 1943 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för de kirurgiska disciplinerna, Avdelningen för ortopedi,Institute of Surgical Sciences, Department of Orthopaedics
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- 2004-05-19
- 2005
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Eur Spine J. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0940-6719. ; 14:4, s. 337-45
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Abstract
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Stäng
- The total costs for patients who are sick-listed due to back and neck problems have not previously been determined prospectively on an individual basis. This study aimed to determine the total cost to a society, based on individually assessed costs of health services and loss of production in people who are sick-listed 28 days or more for back or neck problems. Detailed data on individuals' health-care consumption due to back or neck problems was collected through prospectively entered diaries and questionnaires, after 4 weeks, 3 months, 1 and 2 years, in a consecutively selected cohort of 1,822 employed persons aged between 18 and 59 years. Costs for health care and production losses due to work absenteeism were determined individually and combined to render total costs to society. The costs for all medical services during the 2-year study were 6.9% of total costs for back and neck problems. The single most expensive medical service was surgery. Transferred to a national level, annual total costs for back and neck problems corresponded to 1% of GNP. In conclusion, direct health-service costs were a small fraction of the total costs, consequently indirect costs offer the greatest potential for savings.
Ämnesord
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Kirurgi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Surgery (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Adult
- Cohort Studies
- Disabled Persons
- Economics
- Efficiency
- *Health Care Costs
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Low Back Pain/physiopathology/*therapy
- Middle Aged
- Neck Pain/physiopathology/*therapy
- Prospective Studies
- *Sick Leave
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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