Impact of specialist ataxia centres on health service resource utilisation and costs across Europe: cross-sectional survey
Stephen Morris, Julie Vallortigara, Julie Greenfield, Barry Hunt, Deborah Hoffman, Carola Reinhard, Holm Graessner, Antonio Federico, Vinciane Quoidbach, Paola Giunti · 2023
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Description
Stephen Morris and co-authors compare care costs for people with ataxia across three European countries. Their 2023 survey asks whether attending a specialist ataxia centre changes how much health care patients use and what it costs. Little was known about the price of treating this group of movement disorders.
Patients in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany reported their service use over twelve months. Replies came from one hundred eighty-one British, ninety-six Italian, and forty-three German patients. For most kinds of contact, use differed little between centre attenders and those who never attended. Costs per patient were tallied by group and country. The authors frame the survey as a base for judging whether specialist care pays for itself in this rare-disease field.
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| CREATOR | Stephen Morris, Julie Vallortigara, Julie Greenfield, Barry Hunt, Deborah Hoffman, Carola Reinhard, Holm Graessner, Antonio Federico, Vinciane Quoidbach, Paola Giunti |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |