
Economic Cost of Functional Neurologic Disorders
Neurology® Podcast
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for FND
I think it's important to take a very nuanced approach to these studies and what figures they're reporting. There are broader issues when you're trying to work out the cost-effectiveness of treatments for patients with FND. If you have a treatment approach based primarily on the presenting symptom, that can dilute or even obscure your treatment benefit for a subset of patients. So again, this needs to be thought about carefully when you're assessing the cost-effective. And finally, we know that FND is a chronic disorder, it's a fluctuating disorder, you really need long-term data here.
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