Work status and productivity costs due to ankylosing spondylitis: comparison of three European countries

• Published in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases Vol. 61; no. 5; pp. 429 - 437
• Main Authors: Boonen, A, van der Heijde, D, Landewé, R, Spoorenberg, A, Schouten, H, Rutten-Van Mölken, M, Guillemin, F, Dougados, M, Mielants, H, de Vlam, K, van der Tempel, H, van der Linden, Sj
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism 01.05.2002; BMJ; BMJ Publishing Group Ltd; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Analysis; analysis of variance; Ankylosing spondylitis; ANOVA; BASDAI; BASFI; Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index; Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index; Belgium; Biological and medical sciences; confidence interval; Cost of Illness; Costs; Costs and Cost Analysis; Disability; Disabled Persons; Disease; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; economic analysis; Employment; EQ-5D; EuroQol 5 dimensions instrument; Extended Report; Female; Follow-Up Studies; France; friction costs; GDP; Gross Domestic Product; Health aspects; Health insurance; Hospitals; human capital; Humans; IBD; inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammatory joint diseases; Labor force; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Netherlands; odds ratio; Patients; Population; Productivity; Professions; Proportional Hazards Models; Prosperity; QoL; quality of life; Questionnaires; Regression Analysis; Rheumatic diseases; rheumatoid arthritis; Sick Leave; Sociodemographics; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - economics; Studies; the Netherlands; Worker absenteeism; Netherlands; Belgium; France; Europe; Spondylarthropathy; Human; Productivity; Chronic; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Inflammatory joint disease; Cost analysis; Epidemiology; Comparative study; Work disability; Ankylosing spondylitis; Quality of life

Objective: To compare work disability, sick leave, and productivity costs due to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) of three European countries. Methods: 216 patients with AS from the Netherlands, France, and Belgium participated in a two year observational study. Employment and work disability rates at ba...