Data Sheet 1_Patient-centered burdens and economic outcomes among patients who are veteran

A scoping review of 126 U.S.-based studies from January 2015 to April 2025 synthesizes literature on patient-centered burdens and economic outcomes for veterans, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and rural populations. The review, authored by Naomi Buell and shared on figshare, categorizes outcomes into direct medical costs, direct non-medical costs, indirect impacts, and intangible burdens. It found intangible burdens were the most frequently reported outcome, while patterns varied significantly across the three studied populations.

Use Cases

• Identify research gaps in economic outcome measurement for underrepresented populations based on the reported frequencies of direct medical, non-medical, indirect, and intangible burdens.
• Compare the focus of burden assessment across veteran, IDD, and rural populations based on the described patterns of reported outcome categories.
• Analyze the prevalence of population-specific research justifications based on the reported percentages of studies providing them for each group.

Strengths

• Includes 126 studies meeting inclusion criteria, providing a substantive review base.
• Provides specific counts for reported outcome categories (e.g., intangible burdens n=84, direct medical costs n=47).
• Compares findings across three distinct population groups (veterans, people with IDD, rural populations) with group-specific counts.
• Defines a clear temporal scope for the literature search (January 2015–April 2025).

Limitations

• The underlying data is a review document (DOCX); column-level documentation for any extracted data is absent.
• Row count for any potential extracted data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset's 2.2 MB size suggests it is a document, not a large structured data repository.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Naomi Buell.

Collection Method

Literature review synthesizing records from PubMed, CINAHL, EconLit, Web of Science, and APA PsycInfo.

Time Range

January 2015 to April 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 05:34:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States