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Measuring the unmeasurable: the role and importance of quality of life measurement in economic evaluations of sleep disorder treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

JM Graf von der Schulenburg
JM Graf von der Schulenburg*
Affiliation:
North German Centre for Health Services Research, University of Hannover, Königsworther Platz 1, 30167Hannover, Germany
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Summary

Sleep disorder is a widespread chronic disease. Its treatment and the disease itself causes losses to society, eg treatment cost and cost of sick leaves. On the other hand an appropriate treatment increases patients' quality of life and work productivity. The basic methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of treating sleep disorders are described.

Keywords

economicsevaluationquality of lifecost of sleep disorder
Type
Research Article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue S3: Satellite Symposium to the AEP Congress , 1995 , pp. 95s - 98s
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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