Lifetime Disability-adjusted Life Year assessment of indolent systemic mastocytosis.

Background: Indolent Systemic Mastocytosis (ISM) is a rare disease associated with numerous and diverse symptoms that significantly impact patients' overall health, psychological, emotional, and professional well-being, ultimately affecting their quality of life.

Objective: We aim to estimate the Disability-adjusted Life Year (DALY) of ISM to assess the burden for patients and society.

Methods: We used prospective and retrospective data on symptoms and quality of life from an ISM population recruited at the French expert center CEREMAST, to estimate Disability Weight allowing DALY calculation.

Determinants of Resting Energy Expenditure in Very Old Nursing Home Residents.

Objectives: This study aimed to measure resting energy expenditure (REE) in institutionalized old persons and to determine factors possibly related to change in REE as a basis for estimating energy requirements.

Design And Settings: A monocentric cross-sectional study was conducted. Statistical approaches were conducted to determine independent factors associated with REE.

[Principles of health economic evaluation for use by caregivers].

The aim of health economic evaluation is to maximize health gains from limited resources. By definition, health economic evaluation is comparative, based on average costs and outcomes of compared interventions. Incremental costs and outcomes are used to calculate the cost-effectiveness ratio, which represents the average incremental cost per gained unit of effectiveness (i.

Cost of diabetic eye, renal and foot complications: a methodological review.

Introduction: Diabetic retinopathy (DR), diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) represent a public health and economic concern that may be assessed with cost-of-illness (COI) studies.

Objectives: (1) To review COI studies published between 2000 and 2015, about DR, DKD and DFU; (2) to analyse methods used.

Methods: Disease definition, epidemiological approach, perspective, type of costs, activity data sources, cost valuation, sensitivity analysis, cost discounting and presentation of costs may be described in COI studies.

Comparison of informal care time and costs in different age-related dementias: a review.

Objectives: Age-related dementia is a progressive degenerative brain syndrome whose prevalence increases with age. Dementias cause a substantial burden on society and on families who provide informal care. This study aims to review the relevant papers to compare informal care time and costs in different dementias.