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Understanding Health Care Costs In A Wisconsin Acute Leukemia Population, Patricia Steinert, Ron A. Cisler
Understanding Health Care Costs In A Wisconsin Acute Leukemia Population, Patricia Steinert, Ron A. Cisler
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
Purpose
We investigated factors driving health care costs of patients with a diagnosis of acute myeloid and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Methods
Standard costs identified in insurance claims data obtained from the Wisconsin Health Information Organization were used in a sample of 837 acute leukemia patients from April 2009 to June 2011. The Andersen behavioral model of health care utilization guided selection of patient and community factors expected to influence health care costs. A generalized linear model fitting gamma-distributed data with log-link technique was used to analyze cost.
Results
Type of treatment received and disease severity represented significant cost drivers, and …