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Table 7 Studies that represented loss of productivity due to absenteeism from work/school as the largest proportion of total indirect costs

From: Economic burden of asthma: a systematic review

References No.

Country

Study duration

Sample size

Productivity loss/person

Total indirect cost

Total asthma related cost

    

Mean

SD

95%CI

%

  

Institutional studies

10

US

1 yr

3528

83

-

-

-

148

-

11

US

1 yr

401

1,370

-

-

61

2,234

-

13

Spain

1 yr

333

553,569 Ï•

-

-

-

915,674

-

15Â¥

Canada

1 yr

940

935

-

-

92

1,018

-

    

1,411

-

-

50

2,836

-

16

Italy

1 yr

527

416

-

261–573

53

663

-

18

Canada

1 yr

149

44,623

-

-

-

67,729

-

21

US

1 yr

443

1,437

3732

-

-

1,788

-

23*

France

1 yr

318

-

-

-

-

 

-

26

Hungary

1 yr

378 x

540

-

-

-

1,132

-

   

711 y

170

-

-

-

810

-

27

Sweden

1 yr

115

1,399

-

-

76

1,778

-

42

Canada

1 yr

339

66

-

-

44

150

-

50

Denmark

1 yr

115

760,853 Ï•

-

-

62

822,067

1.2 m

National studies

14

US

1 yr

35000

315 m

-

113–517

33

955 m

8,256 m

20

Singapore

1 yr

142,300

18.5 m

-

-

37

24.31 m

49.36 m

43

US

1 yr

2.52 b

821 m

-

-

-

1,124 m

2.3 b

48

Switzerland

1 yr

N/A

414 m

-

-

75

551 m

1,413 m

49

US

1 yr

N/A

1,448 m

-

-

-

4.2 b

7.2 b

58

US

10 yrs

14.2 m

1,902 m

-

-

-

6,583 m

15,248 m

  1. All costs are converted and adjusted into 2008 US dollars
  2. * Cost information of studies 65 and 22 were not available
  3. ¥: 92% from the patient perspective and 50% from the societal perspective; ϕ: of total study sample size; N/A: Number of asthmatics patients in US in 1985
  4. x: adult and pediatric patients, y: pediatrics; m: million; b: billion