Fraction of nursing home admissions attributable to urinary incontinence

Value in Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 272-274

  Morrison, Alan ^a   Levy, Richard ^b  

^a SCRIBCO   (United States)

^b Levy Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Health expenditures; Nursing homes; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NURSING HOME; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33746430424     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2006.00109.x     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Hu TW, Wagner TH, Bentkover JD, et al. Costs of urinary incontinence and overactive bladder in the United States: a comparative study. Urology 2004;63: 461-5.
2. Wilson L, Brown JS, Shin GP, et al. Annual direct cost of urinary incontinence. Obstet Gynecol 2001;98: 398-406.
3. Pastor PN, Makuc DM, Reuben C, Xia H. Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. Health, United States, 2002. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2002.
4. Thom D. Variation in estimates of urinary incontinence prevalence in the community: effects of differences in definition, population characteristics, and study type. J Am Geriatr Soc 1998;46:473-80.
5. Birnbaum HG, Leong SA, Oster EF, et al. Cost of stress urinary incontinence: a claims data analysis. Pharmacoeconomics 2004;22:95-105.
6. Last JM. A Dictionary of Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
7. Thom DH, Haan MN, Van Den Eeden SK. Medically recognized urinary incontinence and risks of hospitalization, nursing home admission and mortality. Age Ageing 1997;26:367-74.
8. US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Price Index: December 2004. September 20, 2005.