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Adds direct medical, direct non-medical and indirect productivity costs to give the total societal cost of a condition, and divides by cases.
Cost of illness
Total cost = direct medical + direct non-medical + indirect productivity losses; cost per case = total / cases
A societal perspective. A payer perspective would count direct medical costs only.
For conditions affecting working-age adults, lost output frequently exceeds treatment cost several times over.