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[Updating standardized unit costs from a societal perspective for health economic evaluation]
Louisa-Kristin Muntendorf1, Christian Brettschneider1, Alexander Konnopka2
1Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Aim Of The Study:
The aim of this work was to update the 2015 unit costs (UC) for the monetary valuation of health-related resource use from a societal perspective for the years 2019 and 2020 in Germany.
Methods:
The update follows the methodology of Bock et al. 2015. Based on the newly established care levels, UC for care degree 1 to 5 are now provided. To account for change in price trends during the Covid-19 pandemic, average growth rates in UC are shown from 2011-2019 and compared to 2019-2020.
Results:
Updates of UC for the outpatient medical sector, remedies and aids, hospitals, (in)formal care services, and rehabilitation for 2019 and 2020 are provided.
Conclusion:
The updated UC can be used as reference values for the monetary valuation of individual resource use in health economic evaluations in Germany.
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