 Cost of Illness
"Cost of Illness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The personal cost of disease which may be economic, social, or psychological. 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, the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care.
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D017281
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.165 N05.715.360.300.800.438.375.182 N06.850.520.308.980.438.475.046
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| Concept/Terms |
Cost of Illness- Cost of Illness
- Illness Cost
- Illness Costs
- Sickness Cost
- Costs, Sickness
- Burden of Illness
- Illness Burden
- Illness Burdens
- Cost of Disease
- Economic Burden of Disease
- Disease Cost
- Cost, Disease
- Costs, Disease
- Disease Costs
- Cost of Sickness
- Sickness Costs
- Costs of Disease
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2002 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2003 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2006 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2007 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2008 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2009 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2010 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2011 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2012 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2013 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2014 | 7 | 14 | 21 | | 2015 | 5 | 11 | 16 | | 2016 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2017 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2018 | 9 | 8 | 17 | | 2019 | 6 | 9 | 15 | | 2020 | 9 | 10 | 19 | | 2021 | 3 | 11 | 14 | | 2022 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2024 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cost of Illness" by people in Profiles.
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Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Nat Commun. 2025 May 07; 16(1):4235.
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Silverberg JI, Anderson P, Cappelleri JC, Piercy J, Levenberg ME, Myers DE, Gerber RA. Burden of mild and moderate atopic dermatitis in adults: results from a real-world study in the United States. Arch Dermatol Res. 2025 Mar 12; 317(1):556.
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Bradley CJ, Shih YT, Yabroff KR. Inauspicious Beginnings: Cancer and Financial Hardship among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in the United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Dec 02; 33(12):1553-1555.
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Myers SP, Zheng Y, Dibble K, Mittendorf EA, King TA, Ruddy KJ, Peppercorn JM, Schapira L, Borges VF, Come SE, Rosenberg SM, Partridge AH. Financial Difficulty Over Time in Young Adults With Breast Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 04; 7(11):e2446091.
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Allen LA, Lowe EF, Matlock DD. The Economic Burden of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Living Longer but Poorer? Heart Fail Clin. 2024 Oct; 20(4):363-372.
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Melkonian V, de la Torre L, Ketzer J, Rodriguez V, Schneider L, Martin H, Merritt A, Krause A, Wickham M, Pena A, Bischoff A. Economic Impact of Daily Bowel Management Regimens. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Jan; 60(1):161925.
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Xu X, Kwiatek J, Siddall J, Genofre E, Stirnadel-Farrant H, Katial R. Patient-reported symptoms and burden of eosinophilic esophagitis: evidence from real-world clinical practice. BMC Gastroenterol. 2024 Aug 03; 24(1):246.
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Keller L, Stitt J. Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Quality of Life and Economic Impacts. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2024 08; 44(3):453-467.
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Wolf KI, Rose-Krasnor L, Alband S, Lenders JWM, Fishbein L. Patient-reported burden associated with pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma diagnosis. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2024 Jun 01; 31(6).
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Batac ALR, Golding MA, Merrill KA, L? ML, Fong AT, Hsu PS, Warren CM, Dadha P, Abrams EM, Chan ES, Ben-Shoshan M, Bilaver LA, Gupta RS, Shroba JA, Kivist? JE, Greenhawt MJ, M?kel? MJ, Muraro A, Ahlstedt S, Protudjer JLP. A scoping review protocol for evaluating cost questionnaires aimed at measuring the household financial burden of food allergy. Clin Exp Allergy. 2024 Jul; 54(7):524-527.
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