Use and Costs of Medical Care for Children and Adolescents With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Abstract

In our cohort, compared with persons without ADHD, those with ADHD exhibited substantially greater use of medical care in multiple care delivery settings.

Use of services and associated costs for young adults with childhood hyperactivity/conduct problems: 20-year follow-up

“…11 From the existing literature, the most comparable findings come from a US-based population birth cohort of children with ADHD who were followed up until age 13-19 years. 31 Compared with our findings, a smaller proportion of their sample had out-patient hospital appointments (41%) and in-patient hospital admission (26%). However, their rates of A&E contact (81%) were slightly higher than ours.…”

Emotional/Behavioral Problems and Functional Impairment in Clinic- and Community-Based Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Taiwan

“…Consistent with some studies (Leibson et al 2001) and our hypothesis, but at variance with others (Klassen et al 2004), patients with ADHD are more likely to have physical problems, especially asthma, allergy and gastrointestinal diseases. Although general disadvantages instead of ADHD itself are supposed to contribute to health problems (Bauermeister et al 2007), our findings of increased physical problems only in the clinical ADHD group suggest that presence of physical problems may be related to clinical referral.…”

Impact of Mental Health Comorbidities on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure in a Large US Managed Care Adult Population with ADHD

“…These findings are consistent with published studies that have reported higher utilization and expenditure associated with patients with ADHD with MH comorbidities [8,[23][24][25][26][27][28]. Previous studies comparing patients with ADHD with control populations in both pediatrics [29,30] and adults [8,9,31] suggest that patients with ADHD yield higher expenditure than do non-ADHD controls, even after controlling for patient comorbidities [8].…”