AIMC Topic: Cost of Illness

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Unveiling the burden of snakebite injuries: an EQ-5D-5 L-based evaluation of health-related quality of life.

BMC public health
BACKGROUND: Snakebite envenoming remains poorly understood in terms of long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL), particularly in China where standardized assessments are lacking. This study is the first to comprehensively evaluate HRQoL impai...

Invasive meningococcal disease in adolescents in Europe and select geographies: Disease burden, unmet medical need, and optimizing prevention.

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is uncommon but serious; the case fatality rate is 8-15% and up to 20-40% of survivors experience disabling sequelae, with a substantial socioeconomic impact. Although incidence is highest in infants and young chi...

Causal effect of conventional anti-dementia drugs on economic burden: an orthogonal double/debiased machine learning approach.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) did not introduce a cap on out-of-pocket (OOP) for newly approved Alzheimer's Disease (AD) drugs, such as lecanemab which is covered under Medicare Part B. Therefore, expanding the use of conventional ant...

Social Media Insights Into Disease Burden in Patients and Caregivers of Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Subcohort Analysis of High-Risk Patients.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Social media platforms offer valuable insights into patients' experience, revealing organic conversations that reflect their immediate concerns and needs. Through active listening to lived experiences, we can identify unmet needs and disc...

Enhancing AI-driven forecasting of diabetes burden: a comparative analysis of deep learning and statistical models.

Scientific reports
Accurate forecasting of diabetes burden is essential for healthcare planning, resource allocation, and policy-making. While deep learning models have demonstrated superior predictive capabilities, their real-world applicability is constrained by comp...

Spatiotemporal patterns and climate-induced macroeconomic burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

BMC public health
BACKGROUND: The global malaria burden is characterized by economic, geographical, and climatic disparities, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Moreover, meteorological factors have become increasingly important to understand the malaria burden i...

Global burden of vertebral fractures from 1990 to 2021 and projections for the next three decades.

Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research
BACKGROUND: Vertebral fractures are linked to significant disability and mortality risks. Yet, existing studies on their global burden are outdated and lack predictive foresight.

Comparison of ARIMA model, DNN model and LSTM model in predicting disease burden of occupational pneumoconiosis in Tianjin, China.

BMC public health
BACKGROUND: This study aims to explore appropriate model for predicting the disease burden of pneumoconiosis in Tianjin by comparing the prediction effects of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) model an...

Automated Annotation of Epileptiform Burden and Its Association with Outcomes.

Annals of neurology
OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to determine the dose-response relation between epileptiform activity burden and outcomes in acutely ill patients.