Cost of informal care for patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes current evidence and research challenges.成本的非正式照顾心血管疾病或糖尿病患者现有的证据和研究的挑战推荐.pdfVIP

Qual Life Res DOI 10.1007/s11136-016-1478-0 REVIEW Cost of informal care for patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes: current evidence and research challenges 1 2 3 Heesoo Joo • Ping Zhang • Guijing Wang Accepted: 3 December 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland (outside the USA) 2016 Abstract ranged from $5560 to $143,033 for stoke, $12,270 to Purpose Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) or $20,319 for heart failure, and $1192 to $1321 for diabetes. diabetes often require informal care. The burden of infor- Conclusions The costs of informal care are substantial, and mal care, however, was not fully integrated into economic excluding them from economic evaluation would under- evaluation. We conducted a literature review to summarize estimate economic benefits of interventions for the pre- the current evidence on economic burden associated with vention of CVD and diabetes. informal care imposed by CVD or diabetes. Methods We searched EconLit, EMBASE, and PubMed Keywords Informal caregiving Economics Diabetes for publications in English during the period of 1995–2015. Heart disease Stroke Chronic illness Keywords for the search were informal care cost, costs of informal care, informal care, and economic burden. We excluded studies that (1) did not estimate monetary values, Introduction (2) examined methods or factors affecting informal care, or (3) did not address CVD or diabetes. Informal care—unpaid care provided by families or non- Results Our search identified 141 potential abstracts, and family volunteers to fulfill patients’ need to accomplish 10 of the articles met o