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Table 1 Aggregated costs of tests, staging, inpatient, medication, follow-up, screening, complications and end-of-life (index year 2017)

From: Effectiveness, benefit harm and cost effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening in Austria

Item

Costs at index year 2017, EUR

Costs for tests

 Colonoscopy

228

 Polypectomy

64

 gFOBT (gFOBT stool test only)

37 (0.83)

 FIT (FIT stool test only)

41 (0.89)

Staging costs (weighted mean of colorectal cancer and rectal cancer)

461

Aggregated inpatient-care costs (weighted mean of colorectal cancer and rectal cancer at UICC level)

 UICC I

13,831

 UICC II

18,699

 Costs UICC III

19,038

 Costs UICC IV

24,059

Aggregated medication costs (UICC IV)

12,433

Aggregated follow-up costs (weighted mean of colorectal cancer and rectal cancer separately for follow-up year, including medical consultation, tumor marker laboratory, colonoscopy/rectoscopy, CT)

 Costs: Year 1

552

 Costs: Year 2

367

 Costs: Year 3

349

 Costs: Year 4

419

 Costs: Year 5

237

 Costs: Year 9, 14, lifelong every 60 months

228

Costs for screening program

 Colonoscopy screening program (10-yearly)

1,950,353

 Stool-based screening program (annually)

4,118,142

Costs of complications (inpatient stay)

 Surgical procedures

23,258

 Inpatient stay

5250

End-of-life costs (inpatient care + medication)

 One-time costs, cancer death at UICC I and UICC II

55,530

 One-time costs, cancer death at UICC III

36,492

  1. EUR Euro, gFOBT Guaiac-fecal occult blood test, FIT Fecal immunochemical test, UICC Union for International Cancer