The costs of schizophrenia and predictors of hospitalisation from the statutory health insurance perspective

Jan Zeidler (), Lara Slawik (), Jochen Fleischmann () and Wolfgang Greiner ()

Health Economics Review, 2012, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: The schizophrenia specific and overall health care costs of unstable patients were clearly higher than was the case with stable patients and mainly determined by inpatient hospital treatment. A range of potential predicting factors which can be extracted from routine claims data have a positive or negative influence on the probability of treatment in hospital. Copyright Zeidler et al.; licensee Springer. 2012

Keywords: Schizophrenia; Claims data; Hospitalisation; Costs; Predictors; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1186/2191-1991-2-9

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