ArticleJournal of clinical and experimental hepatology
Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease and Primary Liver Cancer in the United States: Analysis of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
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- Investigation of factors influencing anxiety and depression symptoms after therapy in 200 patients diagnosed with primary liver cancer.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
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Background: Worldwide, liver cancer (LC) is the fifth and third most common type of cancer and cancer-related mortality, respectively. Our aim was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) and resource utilization in chronic liver disease (CLD) patients with LC. Methods: We used the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004-2013. All patients had HRQL (Short Form-12, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, Kessler Psychological Distress Scale) and resource utilization data. We used patients with CLD without LC and colon cancer (CC) as controls. Results: A total of 1882 CLD patients (53 ± 14 years, 45% male, 53% white, 15% black, 23% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 42% employed, 48% private insurance, and 11% uninsured) were included. Of the cohort, 102 (5.4%) patients had LC. LC patients were older, more likely to be male and white, less employed but less likely uninsured than CLD patients without LC (all Conclusion: While having CLD causes impairment of patients' HRQL, LC further adds to this impairment and also contributes to a substantial resource utilization.
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