Table 4 Measurements of cost
Measurements of costs | |||||
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Type of cost | Costs for | Specification | Source of resources used | Source of costs per 'unit' | Cost calculation |
Medical direct costs | Primary Health Care consultations | General Practitioner Practice nurse Physiotherapist Psychologists | Self-reported and comparison the answers by E-cap (electronical clinical records e-cap) | Catalan Institute of Health provider | Number of visits × tariff |
Secondary care consultations | Other specialists | Self-reported and comparison by E-cap | Catalan Institute of Health provider | Number of visits × tariff | |
diagnostic tests | Radiology, magnetic resonance, scanner, electromyogram | Self-reported and comparison by E-cap | Catalan Institute of Health provider | Tests done × tariff | |
Pharmaceutical treatment | muscle relaxants, analgesics, NSAIDs, corticoids, anxiolytic, Antidepressants and gastric protectors | Self-reported and comparison by E-cap | Standard Pharmaceutical Prices by Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos | Medicines bought × price medicine | |
Additional medical services | Traumatology, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, other therapies | Self-reported and comparison by E-cap | Catalan Institute of Health provider | Services provided × tariff | |
Material provided in intervention | leaflet, booklet, CD, DVD | Provider | Provider; production costs | Number of material × price per material | |
Material used in intervention | mat, postural stool, tennis ball | Provider | Provider; market price | Number of material × price per material | |
Non medical direct costs | Aid to patients who face disabilities | Aid in household, aid for young children | Self-reported | Patient | hours of aid × price per aid |
Additional therapies | Gymnasium, swimming, Yoga/Tai Chi/stretching, other | Self-reported | Patient | Number of months × price per month | |
Acupuncture, osteopathy, massage, homeopathy, other therapies | Self-reported | Patient | Number of sessions × price per session | ||
Indirect costs | Cost of lost productivity | Absenteeism | Self-reported and comparison by E-cap | Self-reported, profession classification assigned according to Spanish National Institute of Statistics | Days of work sick leave × salary |
Presenteeism | Self-reported | Self-reported, profession classification assigned according to Spanish National Institute of Statistics | reduction percentage × productivity | ||