Angelis, Aris 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0261-4634, Tordrup, David and Kanavos, Panos ORCID: 0000-0001-9518-3089
(2015)
Socio-economic burden of rare diseases: a systematic review of cost of illness evidence.
Health Policy, 119 (7).
pp. 964-979.
ISSN 0168-8510
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Abstract
Cost-of-illness studies, the systematic quantification of the economic burden of diseases on the individual and on society, help illustrate direct budgetary consequences of diseases in the health system and indirect costs associated with patient or carer productivity losses. In the context of the BURQOL-RD project (“Social Economic Burden and Health-Related Quality of Life in patients with rare diseases in Europe”) we studied the evidence on direct and indirect costs for 10 rare diseases (Cystic Fibrosis [CF], Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy [DMD], Fragile X syndrome [FXS], Haemophilia, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis [JIA], Mucopolysaccharidosis [MPS], Scleroderma, Prader-Willi Syndrome [PWS], Histiocytosis and Epidermolysis Bullosa [EB]). A systematic literature review of cost of illness studies was conducted using a keyword strategy in combination with the names of the 10 rare diseases. Available disease prevalence in Europe was found to range between 1-2 per 100,000 population (PWS, a sub-type of Histiocytosis, and EB) up to 42 per 100,000 population (Scleroderma). Overall, cost evidence on rare diseases appears to be very scarce (a total of 77 studies were identified across all diseases), with CF (n = 29) and Haemophilia (n = 22) being relatively well studied, compared to the other conditions, where very limited cost of illness information was available. In terms of data availability, total lifetime cost figures were found only across four diseases, and total annual costs (including indirect costs) across five diseases. Overall, data availability was found to correlate with the existence of a pharmaceutical treatment and indirect costs tended to account for a significant proportion of total costs. Although methodological variations prevent any detailed comparison between conditions, most of the rare diseases examined are associated with significant economic burden, both direct and indirect.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01688... |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Elsevier B.V |
| Divisions: | European Institute Social Policy LSE Health |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2015 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2024 19:24 |
| Projects: | BURQOL-RD project |
| Funders: | 2nd Programme of Community Action in the Field of Public Health |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60809 |
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