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COST OF ILLNESS

Specialty Definition: COST OF ILLNESS

DomainDefinition

Health

The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, quality of life, etc. It differs from health care costs, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: COST OF ILLNESS

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Health

Rentz AM, Halpern MT, Bowden R. The impact of candidemia on length of hospital stay, outcome, and overall cost of illness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: COST OF ILLNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-l-l-n-o-o-s-s-s-t"

-3 letters: costliness.

-4 letters: collinses, colonises, colonists, cotillons, eclosions, flections, flossiest, loftiness, oilstones, scolioses, solecists, solstices, sootiness, stillness.

-5 letters: cellists, cessions, colonels, colonies, colonise, colonist, conioses, consists, consoles, coolness, coonties, cosiness, costless, cotillon, eclosion, eftsoons, festoons, flection, floosies, flossies, footless, footsies, incloses, inflects, isotones, lections, lintless, listless, loftless, looniest, lostness, oilstone, ossicles, osteosis, ostioles, sections.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COST OF ILLNESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 53 54      4F 46      49 4C 4C 4E 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0053 0054      004F 0046      0049 004C 004C 004E 0045 0053 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3749535424940243464648395353

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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