This cost analysis encompassed data from the observational Escala Study [24], which included patients with RRMS recruited from 27 Spanish hospitals.
This cost analysis encompassed data from the observational Escala Study, which included patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and spasticity whose treatment had been switched from interferon-β to glatiramer acetate.
The cost encompassed operating cost, annualized capital cost, transportation cost and biomass acquisition cost for each biomass type.
The total cost encompassed four stages in cervical cancer care (screening, diagnosis, detection, and treatment).
However, the term intangible costs encompasses the psychological dimensions of illness [ 20] but they are difficult to quantify or to account for explicitly in economic models [ 21, 22].
Direct costs encompass medical costs such as expenses for pharmaceuticals, inpatient and outpatient medical care costs, as well as other medical services (e.g., occupational therapies).
First, social costs encompass all NHS costs, by definition.
Only direct medical costs encompassed by the tariff price were considered.
Finally, implementation costs encompass those costs connected with ensuring and enabling the achievement of a certain objective.
The category 'other inpatient costs' encompassed costs of inpatient rehabilitation centres, acute and transitional care services and of emergency transport services.
These costs encompassed both the direct costs of managing the program, and any incremental costs or savings flowing from changes in care for program participants.
