Costs of Epilepsy in an Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation

A study compared the cost of caring for 50 institutionalized persons with developmental disabilities and epilepsy with 50 individuals with developmental disabilities. Costs attributable to epilepsy were found to be approximately $825.00 and $918.00 per person over a six-month period. Personnel, drug...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of mental retardation 1999-03, Vol.104 (2), p.148-157
Hauptverfasser:	Burke, Thomas A, McKee, Jerry R, Pathak, Dev S, Donahue, Rafe M. J, Parasuraman, T. V, Batenhorst, Alice S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Adults Anticonvulsants - economics Biological and medical sciences Children Cost Estimates Economic Impact Electroencephalography - economics Epilepsy Epilepsy - complications Epilepsy - drug therapy Epilepsy - economics Epilepsy - nursing Expenditures Female Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data Hospitalization - economics Humans Intellectual Disability - complications Intellectual Disability - economics Intermediate Care Facilities - economics Male Medical sciences Mental health Mental Retardation Nurses - economics Organization of mental health. Health systems Physicians - economics Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Regression Analysis Residential Institutions Residential Programs Retrospective Studies Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry Time and Motion Studies United States
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Zusammenfassung:	A study compared the cost of caring for 50 institutionalized persons with developmental disabilities and epilepsy with 50 individuals with developmental disabilities. Costs attributable to epilepsy were found to be approximately $825.00 and $918.00 per person over a six-month period. Personnel, drugs, hospitalization, and laboratories/procures accounted for additional costs. (Author/CR)
ISSN:	0895-8017 1943-362X
DOI:	10.1352/0895-8017(1999)104<0148:COEIAI>2.0.CO;2