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Publication Metadata only Economic burden of road traffic injuries: A micro-costing approach(2008-11-01) Arthorn Riewpaiboon; Piyanuch Piyauthakit; Usa Chaikledkaew; Mahidol Universitydirect medical cost, direct non-medical cost, and indirect cost or productivity loss. Productivity loss. covers the costs of work absence or death due to road traffic injuries suffered by persons of working age. We collected data on road traffic injuries... and resource utilization which occurred in the fiscal year 2004. A simple random sampling was used to select 200 patients for analysis. The average cost of road traffic injuries per patient was USD 2,596 at 2004 prices. This can be divided into direct cost (USDPublication Metadata only Cost-Utility Analysis of Total Abdominal Versus Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy in a Thai University Hospital(2021-04-01) Warat Duangpirom; Oraluck Pattanaprateep; Orawin Vallibhakara; Woradej Hongsakorn; Areepan Sophonsritsuk; Ramathibodi HospitalQual-5 Dimensions-5 Levels] questionnaire upon admission and at 6 weeks and 3 month post the operations. Direct costs, direct nonmedical costs, indirect costs, health-related quality of life (QoL), and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) values... operation times, than patients who had AH. There was no significant difference in rates of complications between the 2 groups. The direct medical costs for LH were higher than for AH (median [minimum-maximum], $1836.00 [$1082.80-$3072.70] versus $1151Publication Metadata only Direct medical cost of thai pediatric asthma management: A pilot study(2015-12-01) Pongtong Puranitee; Wasu Kamchaisatian; Wiparat Manuyakorn; Soamarat Vilaiyuk; Orawin Laecha; Oraluck Pattanaprateep; Suwat Benjaponpitak; Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology/ Rheumatology; Mahidol Universityin the case of children. Objective: To estimate the direct medical costs of asthma care in children at the Allergy unit of the Department of Pediatrics, Ramathibodi hospital. Methods: In this retrospective study, we included asthmatic children aged less than... visits. From this dataset we estimated drug costs, physician and nursing services, diagnostic tests and procedures, supplies and room charges, and assessed an overall asthma-related direct medical cost. Results: Ninety-seven asthmatic children (aged 11Publication Metadata only Cost of Illness of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection in Vietnam(2012-05-01) Hong Anh T Tu; Herman J. Woerdenbag; Arthorn Riewpaiboon; Sumit Kane; Diep M. Le; Maarten J. Postma; Shu Chuen Li; University of Groningen; Hanoi University; Mahidol University; Royal Tropical Institute - KIT; Bach Mai Hospital; University of Newcastle, AustraliaTo estimate the total financial burden of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection for Vietnam by quantifying the direct medical, the direct nonmedical, and indirect costs among patients with various stages of chronic HBV infection. Direct medical... cost data were retrieved retrospectively from medical histories of inpatients and outpatients in 2008 from a large referral hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. Direct nonmedical and indirect costs data were obtained from face-to-face interviews of outpatientsPublication Open Access Cost of rotavirus diarrhea for programmatic evaluation of vaccination in Vietnam(2016) Arthorn Riewpaiboon; Sunheang Shin; Thi Phuong Mai Le; Dinh Thiem Vu; Thi Hien Anh Nguyen; Neal Alexander; Duc Anh Dang; Rotavirus Economic Study Group; Mahidol University. Faculty of Pharmacystudy was conducted. Methods: A cost-of-illness study was performed from a societal perspective. Data were collected from children below the age of five years who presented to a clinic or hospital with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Patient...-specific information on resource use and cost was obtained through caregiver interviews and medical chart review. Costs are presented in 2014 US dollar ($). Results: A total of 557 children with symptoms of AGE were enrolled from March through June 2009Publication Metadata only Economic burden of beta-thalassemia/Hb e and beta-thalassemia major in Thai children(2010-03-23) Arthorn Riewpaiboon; Issarang Nuchprayoon; Kitti Torcharus; Kaemthong Indaratna; Montarat Thavorncharoensap; Bang On Ubol; Mahidol University; Chulalongkorn University; Phramongkutklao College of Medicine; Saraburi Hospital. The study was designed as a prevalence-based cost-of-illness analysis in a societal perspective. Medical records from three public hospitals of children aged 2-18 years with -thalassemia/Hb E and homozygous -thalassemia were reviewed for direct medical cost... determination. For direct non-medical cost and indirect cost, a family member was interviewed. Findings. It was found that 201 patients with -thalassemia/Hb E (91%) and homozygous -thalassemia (9%) were recruited for this study. Ninety-two (46%) were severePublication Metadata only Cost analysis of osteoporotic hip fractures.(2005-10-01) Patarawan Woratanarat; Wiwat Wajanavisit; Chatchawal Lertbusayanukul; Wichien Loahacharoensombat; Boonsong Ongphiphatanakul; Mahidol Universityfracture treatment in 1 year was 116,458.6 Baht (range 21,428.5-5,070,665.0). Median direct cost was 59,881.6 Baht (range 21,428.5-595,520.4). Direct cost per live-year saved was 118,168. 3 Baht. Preoperative status was the only factor related to direct...OBJECTIVE: To assess the total costs of hip fracture treatment subsequently incurred in 1 year MATERIAL AND METHOD: A cohort study was conducted from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2004. All new osteoporotic hip fracture patients were enrolledPublication Metadata only Cost-Utility Analysis of Direct-Acting Antivirals for Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 1 and 6 in Vietnam(2020-01-01) Ong The Due; Ammarin Thakkinstian; Montarat Thavorncharoensap; Abhasnee Sobhonslidsuk; Olivia Wu; Nguyen Khanh Phuong; Usa Chaikledkaew; Ministry of Health Vitenam; Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University; Mahidol University; University of Glasgow© 2020 ISPOR–The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research Objective: Very few cost-utility analyses have either evaluated direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) on hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 6 patients or undertaken societal... perspective. Recently, DAAs have been introduced into the Vietnamese health insurance drug list for chronic hepatitis C (CHC) treatment without empirical cost-effectiveness evidence. This study was conducted to generate these data on DAAs among CHC patientsPublication Metadata only The cost of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand(1997-12-01) Kamolnetr Okanurak; Santasiri Sornmani; Kaemthong Indaratna; Mahidol University; Chulalongkorn Universityadmitted at the three hospitals, the direct patient costs - treatment cost and the costs of travel, food and lodging - was 66.99 US$ and 61.02 US$ per patient for one episode of DHF in Bangkok and Suphan Buri, respectively. The total patient costs - direct... the expenditures of the government and also the patient costs - direct and indirect - should be taken into account.Publication Metadata only The economic costs of alcohol consumption in Thailand, 2006(2010-07-14) Montarat Thavorncharoensap; Yot Teerawattananon; Jomkwan Yothasamut; Chanida Lertpitakpong; Khannika Thitiboonsuwan; Prapag Neramitpitagkul; Usa Chaikledkaew; Thailand Ministry of Public Health; Mahidol Universityconsumption in developing countries, including Thailand. Therefore, this study aims to estimate these economic costs, in Thailand, 2006. Methods. This is a prevalence-based, cost-of-illness study. The estimated costs in this study included both direct... and indirect costs. Direct costs included health care costs, costs of law enforcement, and costs of property damage due to road-traffic accidents. Indirect costs included costs of productivity loss due to premature mortality, and costs of reduced productivity