It's cheaper to take care of a depressed individual than one with Obsessive-Compulsive ailments....perhaps harder to diagnose OCD and not as many pharmaceutical cures out there...well yet...BD
BioMedEcon Health Economics and Outcomes Research has just delivered an oral presentation summarizing the results of a pioneering study that compares healthcare costs of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to those of patients with depression. OCD, which affects approximately two percent of the U.S. population, is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Whereas many studies have found that patients with depression have higher healthcare costs than patients without depression, few studies have examined the healthcare costs incurred by patients with OCD.
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