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How to get the cost of care by measuring the resources used and valuing them
Learn how to identify the resources used in care, measure their use and assign monetary values.
3 steps
This framework organises the concepts covered at each step of the pathway on the Knowledge Map.
Concepts from other branches of the Knowledge Tree that this pathway builds on.
Step 1
How to count what a treatment uses and give each resource a money value, whether that is one item or a whole budget.
20 concepts
Why start here
Every economic evaluation rests on its cost inputs, so the pathway starts with how resource use is measured and valued.
Step 2
How the time people lose from paid work through illness is valued, and why two accepted methods give different answers.
3 concepts
Why this comes next
With health care costs in place, a wider perspective adds the paid work that patients lose, which needs its own valuation methods.
Step 3
How much a disease costs a population each year, and what that figure can and cannot tell a decision maker.
3 concepts
Why this comes next
Cost-of-illness studies take the same costing methods further, adding up what a disease costs a whole population each year rather than one episode of care.
Branches that take these methods further.