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Stroke accounts for a significant proportion of the expenditures in the health care and social service sectors. Health economics studies of stroke have been performed in several countries. A selection of cost-of-illness studies of stroke from Europe, the USA and New Zealand were reviewed concerning methods of costing. The methodological differences between the studies are significant and this severely limits the possibility of comparing the results. Obtaining consensus on methodology is necessary to make future studies comparable.
Porsdal et al. (1997) studied this question.