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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
卷 153, 期 2, 页码 241-246出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.02.046
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Objective To use health care insurance claims data from a privately insured population to estimate health care use and expenditures for infants and children aged 0 to 4 years with Down syndrome. Study design Data from the 2004 Medstat MarketScan database were used to estimate medical care use and expenditures related to inpatient admissions, outpatient services, and prescription drug claims for children with and those without Down syndrome. Costs were further stratified by the presence or absence of a congenital heart defect (CHD). Results The mean medical costs for infants and children with Down syndrome were $36 384 during 2004; median medical costs were $11 164. Mean and median medical costs for children 0 to 4 years of age with Down syndrome were 12 to 13 times higher than for children without Down syndrome. For infants with Down syndrome and CHDs, mean and median costs were 5 to 7 times higher than for infants with Down syndrome who did not have CHDs. Conclusions These findings may facilitate future assessments of the effect of the Down syndrome on the health care system.
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