Impact of Depression on Health Care Utilization and Costs among Multimorbid Patients – Results from the MultiCare Cohort Study

Jens-Oliver Bock, Melanie Luppa, Christian Brettschneider, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Horst Bickel, Angela Fuchs, Jochen Gensichen, Wolfgang Maier, Karola Mergenthal, Ingmar Schäfer, Gerhard Schön, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer and Hans-Helmut König

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: Objective: The objective of this study was to describe and analyze the effects of depression on health care utilization and costs in a sample of multimorbid elderly patients. Method: This cross-sectional analysis used data of a prospective cohort study, consisting of 1,050 randomly selected multimorbid primary care patients aged 65 to 85 years. Depression was defined as a score of six points or more on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15). Subjects passed a geriatric assessment, including a questionnaire for health care utilization. The impact of depression on health care costs was analyzed using multiple linear regression models. A societal perspective was adopted. Results: Prevalence of depression was 10.7%. Mean total costs per six-month period were €8,144 (95% CI: €6,199-€10,090) in patients with depression as compared to €3,137 (95% CI: €2,735-€3,538; p

Date: 2014
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