. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 4.

Published in final edited form as: Dis Colon Rectum. 2009 Apr;52(4):726–739. doi: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819ed571

TABLE 4.

Economic burden of inflammatory bowel disease patients with anemia

Average hospitalization and average direct cost by severity
Disease severity level	Number of patients	Number of hospitalization/year	Direct cost $
Total patients	7,200
Mild	89.1 percent	0.29	10,687
Moderate/ severe	10.9 percent	1.50	37,925
Adjusted and unadjusted direct/indirect costs per patient
Unadjusted costs
Anemic population $	Nonanemic population $	Difference in unadjusted cost $	Difference in adjusted cost $
Direct costs
28,014	11,187	16,827	7,406
Indirect costs
2,808	3,017	–209	–145
Budget impact model for a hypothetical population of one million members of similar population
Anemia associated direct costs $	Anemia associated indirect costs $	Total anemia associated costs $
3,064,528	–44,942	3,064,528

The data was published in 2005 by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Aging and Geriatric Medicine, Washington, DC and Cerner Health Insights, Beverly Hills, CA.¹²³