Hospital Service Use Among Children With Obesity in Ireland: A Micro-costing Study

References

• Abarca-Gómez, L., Abdeen, Z. A., Hamid, Z. A., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Acosta-Cazares, B., Acuin, C., Adams, R. J., Aekplakorn, W., Afsana, K., & Aguilar-Salinas, C. A. (2017). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet, 390(10113), 2627–2642. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Asaria, M., Grasic, K., & Walker, S. (2016). Using linked electronic health records to estimate healthcare costs: Key challenges and opportunities. Pharmacoeconomics, 34(2), 155–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-015-0358-8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bel-Serrat, S., Heinen, M. M., Mehegan, J., O’Brien, S., Eldin, N., Murrin, C. M., & Kelleher, C. C. (2018). School sociodemographic characteristics and obesity in schoolchildren: Does the obesity definition matter? BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5246-7
   Google Scholar
• Bel-Serrat, S., Heinen, M., Murrin, C., Daly, L., Mehegan, J., Concannon, M., Flood, C., Farrell, D., O’Brien, S., Eldin, N., & Kelleher, C. (2017). The childhood obesity surveillance initiative (COSI) in the Republic of Ireland: Findings from 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015.
   Google Scholar
• Blundell, J. E., Dulloo, A. G., Salvador, J., & Frühbeck, G. (2014). Beyond BMI - phenotyping the obesities. Obesity Facts, 7(5), 322–328. https://doi.org/10.1159/000368783
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street. (2020). W82GO Child and Adolescent Weight Management Service. Retrieved 14 December, from http://w82go.ie/
   Google Scholar
• Citizen's Information. (2020). Charges for hospital services. The Citizens Information Board. Retrieved 14 January, from https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/health_services/gp_and_hospital_services/hospital_charges.html#
   Google Scholar
• Cole, T. (1997). Growth monitoring with the British 1990 growth reference. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 76(1), 47–49. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.76.1.47
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• de Lima, T. R., Martins, P. C., Guerra, P. H., & Silva, D. A. S. (2020). Muscular fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in children and adolescents: A systematic review. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(8), 2394–2406. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002840
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. (2020). PRSI Class A Rates. Government of Ireland. Retrieved 13 May, from https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/ffa563-prsi-class-a-rates/
   Google Scholar
• Dickey, W., Arday, D. R., Kelly, J., & Carnahan, C. D. (2017). Outpatient evaluation, recognition, and initial management of pediatric overweight and obesity in US military medical treatment facilities. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 29(2), 85–93. https://doi.org/10.1002/2327-6924.12398
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Doherty, E., Queally, M., Cullinan, J., & Gillespie, P. (2017). The impact of childhood overweight and obesity on healthcare utilisation. Economics and Human Biology, 27(Pt A), 84–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.05.002
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Dooley, A. A., & Pillai, D. K. (2020). Paedatric obesity-related asthma: Disease burden and effects on pulmonary physiology. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 37, 15–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prrv.2020.04.002
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Economic and Social Research Institute. (2019). Growing up in Ireland: Physical and Health Development. Cohort ‘98 at 20 years old in 2018/19 — Key Findings No. 2. Retrieved 28April, from https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/SUSTAT79.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Farpour-Lambert, N. J., Baker, J. L., Hassapidou, M., Holm, J. C., Nowicka, P., & Weiss, R. (2015). Childhood obesity is a chronic disease demanding specific health care-a position statement from the childhood obesity task force (COTF) of the European Association for the study of obesity (EASO). Obesity Facts, 8(5), 342–349. https://doi.org/10.1159/000441483
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frick, K. D. (2009). Micro-costing quantity data collection methods. Medical Care, 47(7 Suppl 1), S76. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0b013e31819bc064
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hadjiyannakis, S., Buchholz, A., Chanoine, J. P., Jetha, M. M., Gaboury, L., Hamilton, J., Birken, C., Morrison, K. M., Legault, L., Bridger, T., Cook, S. R., Lyons, J., Sharma, A. M., & Ball, G. D. (2016). The Edmonton obesity staging system for pediatrics: A proposed clinical staging system for paediatric obesity. Paediatrics & Child Health, 21(1), 21–26. https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/21.1.21
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hadjiyannakis, S., Ibrahim, Q., Li, J., Ball, G. D., Buchholz, A., Hamilton, J. K., Zenlea, I., Ho, J., Legault, L., & Laberge, A.-M. (2019). Obesity class versus the Edmonton obesity staging system for pediatrics to define health risk in childhood obesity: Results from the CANPWR cross-sectional study. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 3(6), 398–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30056-2
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hampl, S. E., Carroll, C. A., Simon, S. D., & Sharma, V. (2007). Resource utilization and expenditures for overweight and obese children. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 161(1), 11–14. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.161.1.11
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hasan, T., Ainscough, T. S., West, J., & Fraser, L. K. (2020). Healthcare utilisation in overweight and obese children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 10(10), e035676. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035676
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Health Information Quality Authority. (2019). Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies in Ireland. https://www.hiqa.ie/sites/default/files/2019-07/HTA-Economic-Guidelines-2019.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Health Service Executive. (2019a). HR Circular 034/2019: Standardisation of Annual Leave Health and Social Care Professionals. Office of the National Director of Human Resources. Retrieved 13 May, from https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/resources/hr-circulars/hr-circular-034-2019-re-annual-leave-for-health-social-care-professionals.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Health Service Executive. (2019b). Payscales for HSE Staff. Retrieved 5 August 2020, from https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/benefitsservices/pay/
   Google Scholar
• Health Service Executive. (2021). Model of Care for Management of Overweight and Obesity. https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/cspd/ncps/obesity/model-of-care/obesity-model-of-care.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Hering, E., Pritsker, I., Gonchar, L., & Pillar, G. (2009). Obesity in children is associated with increased health care use. Clinical Pediatrics, 48(8), 812–818. https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922809336072
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hernández-Herrera, G., Navarro, A., & Moriña, D. (2020). Regression-based imputation of explanatory discrete missing data. arXiv preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15031v1
   Google Scholar
• Houses of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare. (2017). Slaintecare report.
   Google Scholar
• Jabakhanji, S. B., Sorensen, J., Valentelyte, G., Burke, L. A., McElroy, B., & Murphy, A. (2021). Assessing direct healthcare costs when restricted to self-reported data: A scoping review. Health Economics Review, 11(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-021-00330-2
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Johnson, R. E., Oyebode, O., Walker, S., Knowles, E., & Robertson, W. (2018). The difficult conversation: A qualitative evaluation of the ‘Eat well move more’ family weight management service. BMC Research Notes, 11(1), 325. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3428-0
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Jones Nielsen, J. D., Laverty, A. A., Millett, C., Mainous Iii, A. G., Majeed, A., & & Saxena, S. (2013). Rising obesity-related hospital admissions among children and young people in England: National time trends study. PLoS One, 8(6), e65764. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065764
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaplan, R. S., & Anderson, S. R. (2003). Time-driven activity-based costing. Available at SSRN 485443.
   Google Scholar
• Keel, G., Savage, C., Rafiq, M., & Mazzocato, P. (2017). Time-driven activity-based costing in health care: A systematic review of the literature. Health Policy, 121(7), 755–763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.04.013
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kirk, S., Armstrong, S., King, E., Trapp, C., Grow, M., Tucker, J., Joseph, M., Liu, L., Weedn, A., & Sweeney, B. (2017). Establishment of the pediatric obesity weight evaluation registry: A national research collaborative for identifying the optimal assessment and treatment of pediatric obesity. Childhood Obesity, 13(1), 9–17. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2016.0060
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mitchell, L., Bel-Serrat, S., Stanley, I., Hegarty, T., McCann, L., Mehegan, J., Murrin, C., Heinen, M., & K, C. (2020). The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) in the Republic of Ireland - Findings from 2018 and 2019. https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/childhood-obesity-surveillance-initiativecosi/childhood-obesity-surveillance-initiative-report-2020.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Montgomery-Taylor, S., Watson, M., & Klaber, B. (2015). Child health - leading the way in integrated care. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 108(9), 346–350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076815588315
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• O'Malley, G., Brinkley, A., Moroney, K., McInerney, M., Butler, J., & Murphy, N. (2012). Is the Temple Street W82GO healthy lifestyles programme effective in reducing BMI SDS? 833 accepted poster. Obesity Facts, 5.
   Google Scholar
• O’Brien, N., Joyce, B., Bedford, H., & Quinn, N. (2021). 1146 Emergency department utilisation by homeless children in Dublin, Ireland. (Ed.), (Eds.). British Association of Child and Adolescent Public Health.
   Google Scholar
• Perry, I. J., Millar, S. R., Balanda, K. P., Dee, A., Bergin, D., Carter, L., Doherty, E., Fahy, L., Hamilton, D., Jaccard, A., Knuchel-Takano, A., McCarthy, L., McCune, A., O’Malley, G., Pimpin, L., Queally, M., & Webber, L. (2017). What are the estimated costs of childhood overweight and obesity on the island of Ireland?
   Google Scholar
• Phelan, S. M., Burgess, D. J., Yeazel, M. W., Hellerstedt, W. L., Griffin, J. M., & van Ryn, M. (2015). Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity. Obesity Reviews, 16(4), 319–326. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12266
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pobal. (2019). Pobal maps: information supporting communities. Retrieved 31 October, from https://maps.pobal.ie/
   Google Scholar
• Quek, Y. H., Tam, W. W., Zhang, M. W., & Ho, R. C. (2017). Exploring the association between childhood and adolescent obesity and depression: A meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 18(7), 742–754. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12535
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reilly, J. J., & Kelly, J. (2011). Long-term impact of overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence on morbidity and premature mortality in adulthood: Systematic review. International Journal of Obesity (London), 35(7), 891–898. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2010.222
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rocks, S., Berntson, D., Gil-Salmerón, A., Kadu, M., Ehrenberg, N., Stein, V., & Tsiachristas, A. (2020). Cost and effects of integrated care: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. The European Journal of Health Economics, 21(8), 1211–1221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01217-5
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schalkwijk, A. A. H., Nijpels, G., Bot, S. D. M., & Elders, P. J. M. (2016). Health care providers’ perceived barriers to and need for the implementation of a national integrated health care standard on childhood obesity in the Netherlands - a mixed methods approach. BMC Health Services Research, 16), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1324-7
   Google Scholar
• Staines, A., Balanda, K. P., Barron, S., Corcoran, Y., Fahy, L., Gallagher, L., Greally, T., Kilroe, J., Mohan, C. M., Matthews, A., McGovern, E., Nicholson, A., O'Farrell, A., Philip, R. K., & Whelton, H. (2016). Child health care in Ireland. The Journal of Pediatrics, 177, S87–S106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.04.046
   Google Scholar
• Trasande, L., & Chatterjee, S. (2012). The impact of obesity on health service utilization and costs in childhood. Obesity, 17(9), 1749–1754. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2009.67
   Google Scholar
• Tully, L., Case, L., Arthurs, N., Sorensen, J., Marcin, J. P., & O'Malley, G. (2021). Barriers and facilitators for implementing paediatric telemedicine: Rapid review of user perspectives [systematic review]. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 9, 180. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.630365
   Google Scholar
• Turer, C. B., Lin, H., & Flores, G. (2013). Health status, emotional/behavioral problems, health care use, and expenditures in overweight/obese US children/adolescents. Academic Pediatrics, 13(3), 251–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2013.02.005
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• UN General Assembly. (1989). Convention on the Rights of the Child. United Nations, Treaty Series, 1577(3).
   Google Scholar
• Weiss, R., & Kaufman, F. R. (2008). Metabolic complications of childhood obesity: Identifying and mitigating the risk. Diabetes Care, 31(Supplement 2), S310–S316. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc08-s273
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Wenig, C. M. (2012). The impact of BMI on direct costs in children and adolescents: Empirical findings for the German healthcare system based on the KiGGS-study. The European Journal of Health Economics, 13(1), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0278-7
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Wijga, A. H., Mohnen, S. M., Vonk, J. M., & Uiters, E. (2018). Healthcare utilisation and expenditure of overweight and non-overweight children. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(10), 940–943. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210222
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• World Health Organization. (2021). Obesity and overweight: key facts. WHO. Retrieved 5 September, from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
   Google Scholar
• Wyse, C., Case, L., Barrett, G., Muldoon, M., Jordan, N., Mccrea, L., Flanagan, R., Delaney, S., Tully, L., Arthurs, N., Dow, M., & O’Malley, G. (2021). Evaluating 12 years of Implementing a Multidisciplinary Specialist Child and Adolescent Obesity Treatment Service: Patient-Level Outcomes. (Ed.), (Eds.). European Congress on Obesity Late Breaking Abstracts, Online.
   Google Scholar
• Yangyang, R. Y., Abbas, P. I., Smith, C. M., Carberry, K. E., Ren, H., Patel, B., Nuchtern, J. G., & Lopez, M. E. (2016). Time-driven activity-based costing to identify opportunities for cost reduction in pediatric appendectomy. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 51(12), 1962–1966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2016.09.019
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Zhao, K., Ju, H., & Wang, H. (2019). Metabolic characteristics of obese children with fatty liver: A STROBE-compliant article. Medicine, 98, 16.
   Google Scholar