To study the time loss for type 2 diabetes patients, can any one suggest the methods to estimate it from social perspective, even some patients considered as a workers , others are unemployed or housewife
Thanx for the question, Samer.
The question would have to be fragmented to many areas like time spent attending doctor/medical care, missing house work/work, time spent by others on the patient (=loss of patient's time), etc.
Once decided, aspects of such fragments need be put in to research questionnaire.
This is just a start!!! Von Voyage!
Regards
Suresh
Hallo Samer
You refere to economic evaluation including indirect costs as it is done for models with an societal perspective. In the link I share you find this addressed at page 32/33. The parametrization is usually done by expert opinion and therefore carries a lot of uncertainty. Needs extensive sensitivity testing!
Using a societal perspective leads to problems that you get different cost effectiveness results for different groups of people - older or unemployed are "worth" less - so life years lost or time spent is not calculated as loss to society. Young and educated - high income groups - contribute more to the cost effectiveness (if the intervention works). So in Austria by law only direct costs to the health care system are taken into account. Other guidelines - see link.
HVB is EUNetHTA partner. I also recommend the EUNetHTA Core model for structuring HTAs.
http://www.eunethta.eu/sites/5026.fedimbo.belgium.be/files/2015-04-29-ECO-GL_Final%20version_0.pdf
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