Siew Chin Ong

Aug 13, 2024 | nature.com | Siew Chin Ong

AbstractAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is an important geriatric disease that creates challenges in health policy planning. There is no previous attempt to quantify the actual direct healthcare cost of AD among older adults in Malaysia. This retrospective observational study with bottom-up micro-costing approach aimed to evaluate the direct healthcare expenditure on AD along with its potential predictors from healthcare providers’ perspective, conducted across six tertiary hospitals in Malaysia.

Jul 5, 2024 | healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com | Siew Chin |Kunming City |Universiti Sains Malaysia |Technological Achievements |Hongyu Gong |Siew Chin Ong | +6 more

This systematic review was performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) statement (Supplementary Table 1) [26]. The systematic review was registered on the international prospective register of systematic reviews (PROSPERO) database (CRD42023417391). We searched Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Central databases.