Economic Evaluation and Health Outcomes of Arthritis and its Treatments

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/211279

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Musculoskeletal diseases are the most common single cause of chronic disability in Australia and total joint replacement is rapidly becoming one of the most commonly performed operations. This burden of illness is likely to increase with our ageing population and there is an urgent need to obtain data relating to the costs and outcomes in the Australian context so that appropriate planning of health services and resources can be carried out. The WHO (World Health Organisation) has declared 2000 to 2010 the Bone and Joint Decade, recommending that research into musculoskeletal disorders be a priority. We have been recruiting and following a unique cohort of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients, from both the public and private health sectors, who have been carefully documenting their health outcomes, health care costs (including primary, revision and bilateral hip and knee joint replacement surgery), out-of-pocket and indirect costs related to their arthritis. Long-term follow-up is now essential to obtain a clear picture of the impact of living with arthritis over time and the cost-effectiveness and predictors of good and bad outcomes of joint replacement surgery. The information derived from this study will be useful for patients and doctors in making their decisions about treatments, as well as for health care providers in planning of health services for arthritis sufferers. Given that the cohorts are already established, the study is in a unique position to provide ongoing important longer-term data for relatively low cost.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 01-01-2006

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $360,660.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Orthopaedics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cost Effectiveness of Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Surgery | Cost of Illness, Patient "Out-of-pocket costs" | Economic evaluation | Health Outcomes, Quality of Life, Patient Satisfaction | Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Surgery | Long-term prospective cohort study | Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis | Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis | Patient related health outcomes | Surgical and Non-surgical cohorts

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