Table 1.
Variable | Base | Low | High |
Time horizon | Life-time | 70 | 100 |
Age of patient, yr | 45 | 40 | 60 |
Cost of Biopsy (including complication) | 60 | 60 | 80 |
Cost of tTG Ab's test | 70 | 60 | 80 |
Cost of evaluating symptoms | 150 | 100 | 300 |
Cost of upper endoscopy | 350 | 300 | 400 |
Increasing rate of cost of patient with undiagnosed CD | 1.25 | 1 | 1.4 |
All costs are in 2013 (USD).