Table 1 Outpatient admission cost item: clinical practice, unit costs and total cost
From: Economic burden of lung cancer in Turkey: a cost of illness study from payer perspective
| Outpatient admissions | Annual admission rate (%) | Annual visit # per patient | Unit cost per admission (€) | Total cost (€) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCLC | NSCLC | SCLC | NSCLC | |||
| Medical Oncology | 100 | 100 | 12 | 18 | 6.62 | 198.65 |
| Thoracic Surgery | 100 | 100 | 10 | 10 | 7.54 | 150.90 |
| Chest Diseases | 100 | 100 | 19 | 19 | 7.49 | 285 |
| Neurosurgery | 40 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 8.10 | 16.39 |
| Neurology | 15 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 7.67 | 6.48 |
| General Surgery | 100 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 8.19 | 135.33 |
| Emergencya | 9.35 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 43.8 | 4.60 |
| Family Medicine | 80 | 80 | 2 | 2 | 6.55 | 20.50 |
| Interventional Radiology | 15 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 6.62 | 3.97 |
| Per patient outpatient admission costs (€) | SCLC | Total | 338.93 | |||
| Weighed (15%) | 50.84 | |||||
| NSCLC | Total | 489.55 | ||||
| Weighed (85%) | 416.12 | |||||