Jacob-Tacken, Karin H. M.; Koopmanschap, Marc A.; … - In: Health Economics 14 (2005) 5, pp. 435-443
In the economic evaluation of health care programmes, productivity costs are often estimated using patients' wages for the period of absence. However, the use of such methods for short periods of absence is controversial. A previous study found that short-term absence is often compensated for...