Friction-cost method as an alternative to the human-capital approach in calculating indirect costs

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-104

  Birnbaum, Howard ^a  

^a ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EDITORIAL; FRICTION COST METHOD; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN CAPITAL APPROACH; LEISURE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIETY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK DISABILITY;

ABSENTEEISM; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EMPLOYER HEALTH COSTS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES;

EID: 16244410767     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00019053-200523020-00001     Document Type: Editorial

References (2)

1. Koopmanschap MA, Rutten FFH, van Ineveld BM, et al. The friction cost method and measuring indirect costs of disease. J Health Econ 1995; 14: 171-89
2. Brouwer WBF, Koopmanschap MA. The friction-cost method: replacement for nothing and leisure for free? Pharmacoeconomics 2005; 23 (2): 105-11