Table 5. Monthly costs of Crohn’s disease in Poland.
Category, number of respondents | Mean cost per respondent (SD) |
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I. Indirect costs | |
Absenteeism, n = 197 | €110.86 (286.29) |
Registered early departure from labour market, n = 197 | €162.04 (434.45) |
Presenteeism, n = 197 | €139.62 (224.73) |
Productivity loss at unpaid work, n = 195 | €49.95 (116.71) |
Informal care, n = 195 | €48.26 (112.41) |
II. Direct costs | |
Publicly funded consultation with specialist, n = 196 | €6.62 (9.25) |
Private consultation with specialist, n = 196 | €16.62 (30.99) |
Hospitalisations—public payer’s perspective, n = 194 | €202.11 (496.82) |
Current treatment—public payer’s perspective, n = 200 | €173.31 (382.31) |
All medications prescribed or recommended by physicians (patients’ perspective), n = 197 | €45.25 (36.98) a |
Dietary supplements, special diet, special equipment, transportation to the medical facility (patients’ perspective), n = 193 | €34.64 (35.70) b |
Informational materials, additional hygienic articles and others (patients’ perspective), n = 194 | €13.97 (8.93) c |
III. Transfer costs | |
Social benefits or financial support from public organisations, n = 196 | €39.73 (88.19) |
Financial support from others, n = 195 | €14.83 (50.46) |
a the maximal relative measurement uncertainty ranged from -37.8% to 20.8% of presented value;
b as above, from -43.2% to 30.9%;
c as above, from -85.2% to 82.7%