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Direct costs The analysis takes on a payer perspective and only includes cost of physician visits and cost of interventions Patient carer and employer costs are not taken into account The resource used for each intervention is the product monograph based on the assumption that the population completed the course for each intervention as specified The total quantity of therapy is calculated based on the number of applications duration of treatment and quantity per application based on the maximum recommended dose per week As mentioned earlier no discount rate is applied and this is well justified The study calculates cost per DFD Productivity costs No productivity losses are considered Currency Euro EUR Denmark Krone DKK Norway Krone NOK Sweden Krona SEK and Swiss Franc CHF No conversions are undertaken Statistical analysis of costs The data are deterministic Mean median maximum and minimum values are used to describe total cost and total disease free days although the authors give neither p values nor confidence intervals for the different values stated
