Publications by authors named "Ronald R White"
Objectives: To evaluate health-care utilization and costs attributable to herpes zoster (HZ) within a population of patients with solid organ transplant (SOT).
Methods: Using administrative claims data, a commercially/Medicare-insured population of patients with SOT between January 1, 1999, and January 1, 2007, and a Medicaid population between January 1, 1999, and January 1, 2006, were identified. Each patient group was screened to select patients with claims of SOT with an incident diagnosis of HZ and continuous enrollment for the 6 months prior and 3 months subsequent to the incident HZ.
Objectives: To evaluate health care resource use and direct medical costs attributable to herpes zoster (HZ) among elderly residents of skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
Methods: This was a retrospective matched cohort study using data from 300 SNF in the United States. A total of 404 patients with HZ were matched with 1616 patients with no documented HZ or post-herpetic neuralgia using propensity scores.
Background: Nearly 1 million new episodes of herpes zoster (HZ) occur annually in the US, yet little is known about the medical resource utilization (RU) and costs associated with HZ and its complications.
Objectives: To describe the medical RU and cost burden of HZ in the first 90 days and the first year after diagnosis from the health insurer perspective and to stratify this burden for patients diagnosed with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) and those who are immunocompromised. In addition, this study explores costs from the societal perspective as a result of work loss in the first year after diagnosis.