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Costs of services for schizophrenic patients in Norway
Author(s) -
Rund B. R.,
Ruud T.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1999.tb07209.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , indirect costs , medicine , global assessment of functioning , mental health , catchment area , total cost , unit (ring theory) , emergency medicine , mental health care , psychiatry , psychology , geography , business , drainage basin , mathematics education , cartography , accounting
Estimates of the direct costs of mental health services for patients with schizophrenia are made from a registration of all patients seen during a period of 4 weeks in all treatment units serving 6 catchment areas. The estimates were based on unit costs. The total direct costs of mental health services for Schizophrenic patients in Norway were estimated to be NOK 1158 million (US$ 164 million). In total. 74.3% of the costs are for long‐term in‐patient care, 19.7% are for acute and intermediate length in‐patient care, and 6.0% are for out‐patient and day care. The average costs of schizophrenic patients with a GAF score of 1–20 are almost twice those of patients with a GAF score of 21–40, and more than three times those of patients with a GAF score of 41–60.