Management of Hemophilia in Spain

Abstract

SummaryResults are presented of a nation-wide inquiry into the management of hemophilia in Spain. It is calculated that there are 1,172 hemophilic patients in the country. A survey has been made of the therapeutic materials (prepared commercially or by hospitals) used in 1974 and their availability in the various hospitals of the Social Security Service. It is estimated that an average of 10,708 units of deficient factor were used per patient in this year. The number of patients on home therapy is 1.2% of the total. All cost of hemophilia treatment is covered by the Social Security. Comments are made on progress during the last five years.

A study of variations in the reported haemophilia A prevalence around the world

“…A non-representative sample occurs when the respondents from the sample do not match the desired target population. Some countries sampled a subset of its population to estimate prevalence [9,[53][54][55]79,81] while others are old studies, and the prevalence reported for the 1970s may not represent the observed prevalence today [14,55,[62][63][64][65][66]77,78,80,81]. A survey nonresponse occurs when a respondent does not respond to a survey request.…”

“…A survey nonresponse occurs when a respondent does not respond to a survey request. Some studies reported nonresponding centres or hospitals [56,57,64,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75] or non-responding individuals [59][60][61][62][63]65]. There is also substantial variation in the age distributions among countries which would contribute to variations in reported prevalence.…”