TABLE 1.

Annual cost of HIV infection per patient (2012 $)

Direct cost	Average annual costs per patient*	Reference
Outpatient: first visit	$683	MSSS (16)
Outpatient: follow-up	$272	MSSS (16)
Outpatient total	$934	MSSS (16)
Emergency department visits	$116	MSSS (16), CHUM database
Social worker	$14	MSSS (16), CHUM database
Psychologist	$39	MSSS (16), CHUM database
HIV medication (least/most expensive)	$14,093/$22,040	RAMQ (17)
Hospitalization	$913	MSSS (16),CHUM database
Total direct cost (least/most expensive)	$16,109/$24,056
Indirect cost	Average annual costs per patient†	Reference
Average annual salary losses due to unemployement, weighted according to age distribution	$10,925	A Burchell (personal communication, April 30, 2013), INSPQ (22), CANSIM (23)
Average annual productivity cost due to medical follow-up, weighted according to age distribution	$625	CANSIM (19), INSPQ (22)
Total indirect costs	$11,550
Total costs (least/most expensive)	$27,659/$35,606

^*Calculated by multiplying the average annual visits distributed on sample by unit cost. See Supplementary Tables 1 and 3 for more details;

^†See Supplementary Tables 2, 3 and 5 for more details. MSSS Ministère de la santé et services sociaux du Québec; RAMQ Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec; INSPQ Institut national de santé publique du Québec; CANSIM Statistics Canada socioeconomic database