Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2010 Oct 9;22(3):967–982. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1424-x

Table 3.

Summary of unit costs, drug costs, and QoL multipliers

Unit costs (€) Drug costs (€)/year) QoL multipliers
Daily cost of nursing home [29] 151 Denosumaba 425 Hip fracture 1st yearb 0.80
Cost of a BMD measurement [29] 133 Generic Alendronatec 20 Clinical vertebral fracture 1st yearb 0.65
Cost of a physician visit [29] 114 Risedronatec 338 Wrist fracture 1st yearb 0.956
Cost of a nurse visitd 51 Strontium ranelatec 415 Other fractures 1st yeare 0.902
Price of a course of PPIs for GI eventsc 4 Hip fracture 2+ yearsb 0.90
Clinical vertebral fracture 2+ yearsf 0.929
a

Communication Amgen

b

Derived from [29, 30]

c

Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (www.tlv.se)

d

Average price from three Swedish county councils

e

Derived from [9]

f

Derived from [76]