Health economic evaluation of a web-based intervention for depression: the EVIDENT-trial, a randomized controlled study

Table 1 Assessed medical services by health care sector and corresponding valuation rates adapted from Bock et al. [28], indexed for 2014^a

Health care sector	Unit of measure	Service/service provider	Valuation rate
Outpatient medical care	Number of contacts	General practitioner	€20.20
		Psychiatrist/psychologist	€45.03
		Psychotherapist/psychotherapy	€78.63
		Neurologist	€45.03
		Internist	€65.90
		Urologist	€24.87
		Gynaecologist	€30.34
		Surgeon	€43.69
		Orthopaedist	€25.60
		Dermatologist	€19.02
		Ophtalmologist	€35.02
		Dentist	€56.26
Outpatient paramedical services	Number of contacts	Physiotherapy	€16.53
		Logopaedics	€38.86
		Medical pedicure	€27.70
		Homeopathic practitioner/osteopath	€20.12
Inpatient hospital services	Number of days	Inpatient hospital treatment	€579.93
		Inpatient hospital treatment - intensive care unit	€1347.08
		Psychiatric inpatient treatment	€342.09
Rehabilitation	Number of days	Inpatient rehabilitation	€122.70
Rehabilitation	Number of days	Outpatient rehabilitation	€47.01
Sickness benefit	Number of days	Incapacity to work	€45.01^ab

^aBock et al. (2015) do not present any unit cost prices for calculating the amount of sickness benefit. The valuation for sickness benefit derives from a large routine-data analysis of more than 3.000 patients with depressive disorders of a major German sickness fund, conducted by the University of Bielefeld (paper under revision)
^blong-term disability more than 60 days

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