Table 1.

Unit costs used in the calculation of direct and indirect costs

	Year	Value in 2017 SEKa	Value in 2017 Eurosb	Source
Average inpatient and specialised outpatient cost per 1.0 DRG	2006	51,099	5303	Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, cost per patient for somatic illnesses [31]
	2007	50,348	5226
	2008	51,516	5347
	2009	51,913	5388
	2010	50,582	5250
	2011	50,411	5232
	2012	49,944	5184
	2013	51,596	5355
Co-payment for hospital stay (cost per day of stay)	2018	100	10	Assume SEK100 per day, for whole Sweden, as this is the case for the majority of the regions in Sweden; information obtained from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions. The max co-payment amount for inpatient healthcare was set to SEK1500 per year; assumption for whole Sweden, based on information from the region Västra Götalandsregionen [32]
Co-payment for specialised outpatient healthcare (cost per visit)	2018	273	28	The max co-payment amount for outpatient healthcare was set to SEK1100 per year. Only one region in Sweden has a max co-payment below SEK1100; so SEK1100 was assumed for the entire country. Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions [33, 34]
Monthly salary including employer contributions	2006	42,061	4365	The average monthly salary (2013 values) for all employment types was obtained from Statistics Sweden [35]. It was multiplied with the annual employer contributions, available from the Swedish Tax Authority [36]
	2007	41,485	4306
	2008	42,179	4378
	2009	43,000	4463
	2010	42,010	4360
	2011	41,338	4290
	2012	41,038	4259
	2013	41,284	4285

DRG diagnosis-related groups, ECU European Currency Unit, SEK Swedish krona

^aAll unit costs were inflated to 2017 prices using annual Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for healthcare available from Eurostat [15]

^bThe annual exchange rate for 2017 from SEK to Euros that was used was 9.6351. Source: Eurostat, Annual Exchange Rates Euro/ECU [37]