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Table 1 Costs applied in the Markov model, their distributions and the values used to estimate the distributions. Costs before 2019 have been discounted to the latest values

From: Pharmacy-based screening to detect persons at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes: a cost-utility analysis

Parameter

Value (€) (variation)

Distribution

Distribution values used in PSA (€)

Mean (SE)

Source

Cost of recruitment*

24.5€ (18.4–30.6)

Gamma

24.5 (3)

Based on own results

Cost of intervention*

650 € (488–813)

Gamma

650 (83)

[21]

Additional health care costs of T2D excluding basic health care*

3315 € (2486–4144)

Gamma

3315 (423)

[22]

Cost of T2D complications*

4401€ (3301–5501)

Gamma

4401 (561)

[23]

Costs from productivity losses due to T2D a*

7632€ (5724–9540)

Gamma

7632 (974)

[24]

Additional T2D health care costs for basic health care

551 (SD 575) for men

533 (SD 635) for women

Gamma

Men = 551 (9.53)

Women = 533 (9.82)

Based on own results

Additional medication costs of T2D*

584 (438–730)

Gamma

584 (74)

[25]

  1. a for persons under 65 years old *For variables without available confidence interval, a variation of ±25% has been used as an estimate. SE was calculated separately for additional T2D health care costs for basic health care. In other these cases, SE has been calculated as:
  2. \( SE=\frac{Mean\ast 1.25- Mean\ast 0.75}{2\ast 1.96} \)