Publications by authors named "Aristides Duque"
Objective: To estimate, according to the states of disease (remission or relapse) and her level of progression (EDSS), the cost of treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in Colombia.
Methods: From the perspective of the third payer, a cost study of MS was performed using two-way estimation techniques: a) "Top down" to estimate the costs during relapses from clinical registers of 304 patients; b) "bottom-up" to estimate the cost in remission from a questionnaire (Kobelt 2006) applied to 137 patients, located in different regions of Colombia.
Results: The mean of patient's age was 43,7 years and 73% of those were women.