Indirect costs comprise costs of illness-related absenteeism from paid work (short- and long-term absence from work) as well as from unpaid work (e.g. housework), and costs of productivity loss or gain due to morbidity or premature mortality.
8 Evidence suggests that spasticity-related costs generally comprise costs of conventional treatment, including, but not limited to, hospitalization, rehabilitative therapy, and pharmacotherapy costs.
Structural costs comprise costs of additional co-ordination between institutes, interdisciplinary meetings, fortnightly patient discussions, training of new personnel, refresh training of old personnel, communication and monitoring.
In Finland, biologics administered by patients themselves are reimbursed by the FSII and thus do not comprise costs to a tertiary-level clinic.
The third category comprises cost-sensitive learning approaches that consider a different cost for the misclassification of each class [12, 13].
The first part comprises cost components and health care utilization items that occur regularly and tend to be relatively unimportant to the patient.
This addresses the fourth and fifth objectives, and comprises cost-utility analyses from an NHS perspective within trial and in the long term.
6 Direct medical costs comprised the costs related to medications (including out-of-pocket payment for prescribed medications), laboratory tests and procedures, hospitalizations, medical and other allied health professional outpatient visits, and rehabilitation.
