Would patient travel costs be included in a study conducted from a health-care system perspective?
• What is the difference between a study time frame and analytic horizon? • Is it possible to conduct a prospective study to assess the cost of a program that was recently terminated? • List two intermediate outcomes that could be used to assess the effectiveness of a nursing home vaccination program. • Give an example of a final outcome for this same program. • List two alternative programs for a community wide education campaign for increasing child safety seat use. • What are the components of the net cost equation? • Why are cost of disease averted and cost of productivity losses averted deducted from the program cost in the net cost equation? • In which of these studies should the cost of productivity losses averted be included in the net cost equation?A study conducted from a societal perspective A study conducted from the patient’s perspective A study conducted from the health-care system perspective • The cost of an intervention was estimated at $740,000 for 50 participants. Th
