cost of illness

Preferred Label : cost of illness;

MeSH definition : The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, or QUALITY OF LIFE. It differs from HEALTH CARE COSTS, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals.;

MeSH synonym : illness cost; cost, disease; cost of disease; sickness costs; illness burden; disease costs; illness costs; sickness cost; costs of disease; disease cost; burden of illness; illness burdens; cost of sickness; Disease Burden; Burden, Disease; Disease Burdens; Burden Of Disease; Burden Of Diseases; Therapeutic Burden; Burden, Therapeutic; Therapeutic Burdens;

CISMeF synonym : cost, sickness; costs, disease; costs, sickness; Economic Burden of Disease;

MeSH hyponym : Burden, Pill;

MeSH annotation : coordinate IM with specific disease; if monetary cost in disease, coordinate IM with specific disease / econ; do not confuse with HEALTH CARE COSTS, the cost of providing services in delivery of health care; coordinate with specific disease; if monetary cost in disease, coordinate with specific disease /econ;

Details

Origin ID

D017281;

UMLS CUI

C0162698;

Ne pas confondre avec
- health care costs [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- Economic Burden of Disease [MeSH concept]
- Pill Burden [MeSH concept]
- cost of illness [MeSH concept]
See also
- quality of life [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Qualitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- patient expense [Q-code]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- patient expense [Q-code]

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