Indirect costs associated with ulcerative colitis: a systematic literature review of real-world data

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Table 4 Indirect costs associated with absenteeism- disability in UC

Author, year	Country	% of patients experiencing short term disability	% of patients experiencing long term disability	N. of days absent per patient per year	Costs				Costs adjusted
Author, year	Country	% of patients experiencing short term disability	% of patients experiencing long term disability	N. of days absent per patient per year	Average ST cost of disability per patient/year	Average LT cost of disability per patient/year	Average cost of productivity loss due to disability per patient/year	Currency, base year	Average ST cost of disability per patient/year	Average LT cost of disability per patient/year	Average cost of productivity loss due to disability	Currency, base year
Stark et al. 2006 [28]	Germany	15%	7%	NR	2912	4238	NR	EURO, 2004	3019	4394	NR	$, 2017
Cohen et al. 2015 [18]	USA	16.70%	NR	12.3	2713	2713	NR	$, 2013	2824	2824	NR	$, 2017
Gibson et al. 2008 [25]	USA	15.36%	NR	NR	1386	NR	NR	$, 2005	1794	NR	NR	$, 2017
Mandel et al. 2014 [1]	Hungary	NR	NR	10.14^be	NR	NR	1310	EURO, 2013	NR	NR	1367	$, 2017
Malinowski et al. 2016^c [16]	Poland	NR	NR	NR	111	1503	NR	EURO, 2012	116	1573	NR	$, 2017

^aIt was reported as 224€ per month per short term and 326€ per month per long term disability
^bNot only days associated to disability days
^cAuthors also estimated the average cost of disability in the long term for an unlimited period, 211€ however these patients are only a small part 6 out of 6900
^dThe study reported 1.56 h per week

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