[Calculation of standardised unit costs from a societal perspective for health economic evaluation].

PURPOSE Due to demographic aging, economic evaluation of health care technologies for the elderly becomes more important. A standardised questionnaire to measure the health-related resource utilisation has been designed. The monetary valuation of the resource use documented by the questionnaire is a central step towards the determination of the corresponding costs. The aim of this paper is to provide unit costs for the resources in the questionnaire from a societal perspective. METHODS The unit costs are calculated pragmatically based on regularly published sources. Thus, an easy update is possible. RESULTS This paper presents the calculated unit costs for outpatient medical care, inpatient care, informal and formal nursing care and pharmaceuticals from a societal perspective. CONCLUSION The calculated unit costs can serve as a reference case in health economic evaluations and hence help to increase their comparability.

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