Abstracts tagged "Musculoskeletal and health care cost"

Abstract Number: 2113 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Number of Morbidities Drives the Health Care Expenditures and Presence of a Musculoskeletal Condition Is Additionally Accountable for Higher Costs
Antje van der Zee-Neuen¹, Polina Putrik², Sofia Ramiro³, Andras Keszei⁴, Astrid M. Chorus⁵, Rob de Bie⁶ and Annelies Boonen⁷, ¹Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, University of Amsterdam & Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Medical Informatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, ⁵Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁷Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In Europe, 70- 80% of all healthcare expenses are attributable to chronic diseases and a large part of these are musculoskeletal conditions (MSKC).Having >1…