Direct costs of schizophrenia and related disorders in Italian community mental health services: a multicenter, prospective 1-year followup study.
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The present study provides further estimates of the cost of schizophrenia treatment in Italian mental health services and highlights the variability in the single cost components across clinically defined subgroups of patients.Citations
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Costs of schizophrenia
TL;DR: Although the costs of schizophrenia are considerable, there are treatments and care arrangements which can reduce this aggregate burden while maintaining or improving effectiveness, and a body of evidence on cost-effective community care arrangements, antipsychotic drugs and psychological interventions is reviewed.
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The economic burden of schizophrenia
Linda Davies,Michael Drummond +1 more
TL;DR: Schizophrenia is an expensive disease and it affects approximately 1% of the population but patients occupy 25% of all hospital beds in the USA and Australia as discussed by the authors, and yet the costs of medical services for treating schizophrenia are 75% of those for myocardial infarction.
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An economic evaluation of schizophrenia: 1991
TL;DR: In 1991, the costs for schizophrenia, which has a lifetime prevalence of 1.5% among adult Americans, totaled $65 billion, which was broken down into direct and indirect components.
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The use of a case register to evaluate the costs of psychiatric care
Francesco Amaddeo,Jennifer Beecham,Paola Bonizzato,Andrew J. Fenyo,Martin Knapp,Michele Tansella +5 more
TL;DR: The results of the present study show that, where service use is monitored regularly, the base from which decisions on community provision and placement are made can be informed by careful analysis of routinely or easily available data on direct costs.