A method for comparing and combining cost-of-illness studies: An example from cardiovascular disease

Chronic Diseases in Canada

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 47-57

  Choi, Bernard C K ^a   Pak, Anita W P ^a  

^a CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Cost of illness; Economic analysis; Statistical method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INCOME; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH;

EID: 0036078506     PISSN: 02288699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Economic burden of illness in Canada, 1986
2. Economic impact of cardiovascular disease in Canada
3. Estimating the economic costs of the abuse of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs: A review of methodologies and Canadian data sources
4. Chapter 2. Study design
5. The economic costs of illness: A replication and update
6. Estimating the cost of illness
7. The economic value of human life
8. The value of human life revisited
9. Chapter 8. Cost-effectiveness analysis
10. Estimating the indirect cost of illness: An assessment of the foregone earnings approach
11. Chapter 6. Time preference
12. The economic impact of smoking in Canada
13. Health and social costs of tobacco use in Ontario, Canada, 1979 and 1988
14. Cost-of-illness studies: Fact or fiction?